[Linux-disciples] Editing files on a server

[Dylan Thurston]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:07:48PM -0500, Jason Smith wrote:
> >Learning vim is a great investment if you plan on spending much of  
> >your life
> >in a unix-y world. I am famous[0] for my personal aphorism, "A  
> >man's editor
> >is his castle."
> 
> I've given it a whirl but haven't remained sufficiently dedicated to  
> it to make it through the learning curve. Do you use vim for all your  
> work and general text editing?

If you're not this dedicated at the moment, another alternative is to
tell visudo to use another editor.  'nano' is one nice, small editor,
though not quite as ubiquitous as 'vi'.  Run

% EDITOR=nano sudo visudo

Peace,
	Dylan
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