The default editor is usually configurable (of course you'd have to learn all the different contexts you can do this from first to know this is a thing ... disc

The default editor is usually configurable (of course you'd have to learn all the different contexts you can do this from first to know this is a thing ... discoverability is hard). For example in ubuntu you can do sudo update-alternatives --config editor Some programs will use the environment variable $EDITOR, so you can add this to your shell startup configs export EDITOR=vi Or specifically for git cli you can run git config --global core.editor vi