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Probably because it was the default editor in a bunch of Linux distributions.
by okasaki 6y ago
Probably because it was the default editor in a bunch of Linux distributions.
- luxurytent 6y agoIsn't Pico the usual default?
- tingletech 6y agoon more consumer grade distros I've had to `export EDITOR=vi` before to get vi to come up for things like `crontab -e` and for `git` messages. But it is the default on most systems I've come across personally.
- wadkar 6y agoI have seen nano to be the default for most debian and fedora derived distributions from early 2000s. Not sure if things changed in late teens. Or maybe I am misremembering things.
- luxurytent 6y agoI always confuse pico and nano, tbh.
- asveikau 6y agoAnd that because vi was present and popular on commercial Unix.
- saagarjha 6y agoI haven't seen it be the default, but vi is part of POSIX so it's omnipresent.