In case it needs to be said... you can count on vi being installed on almost any unixy distribution, which is not true of nano, pico, emacs or other common visu

In case it needs to be said... you can count on vi being installed on almost any unixy distribution, which is not true of nano, pico, emacs or other common visual editors. On many contemporary systems, 'vi' is an alias for 'vim' and there you go. You can change the editor Git uses by editing git configuration or setting the shell variables $VISUAL or $EDITOR [1] e.g. EDITOR="bbedit --wait --resume" git rebase -i 5f882cfdec^ [1] https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configura...