FS#13978 - Why is default editor emacs when vi is used for installation?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Todd Partridge (Gen2ly) - Thursday, 26 March 2009, 23:31 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 27 March 2009, 15:33 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

When I was typing in a line on the command line, I decided to bring up the editor by 'ctrl+x+e' and thought it was funny that bash told me that emacs was not found. I located emacs in /etc/inputrc and changed it to vi. Since people have to learn a bit of vi when installing, wouldn't it be better to use vi?
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Friday, 27 March 2009, 15:33 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 27 March 2009, 01:58 GMT
bash suggests emacs by default. This has nothing to do with installation at all, but bash's default. This is easily changable by setting the EDITOR environment variable.

Try adding EDITOR=vi to your ~/.bashrc
Comment by Todd Partridge (Gen2ly) - Friday, 27 March 2009, 11:46 GMT
Huh, didn't know that emacs was default. Getting used to Arch using defaults and I like it (means usually less troubleshooting). Thanks. Requesting closure.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 27 March 2009, 15:32 GMT
Yeah bash is a GNU thing, thus they default to GNU apps... i.e. emacs

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