Yup. You don’t want to pass EDITOR or VISUAL through sudo so update-alternatives it is. It’s weird. I know distros are trying to be friendly to new users. But

Yup. You don’t want to pass EDITOR or VISUAL through sudo so update-alternatives it is. It’s weird. I know distros are trying to be friendly to new users. But aren’t we past “new users” now for server OSes? I’d get it on a Raspberry Pi or whatever, where you’re going after kids. But really, the learning curve and foreign nature of the tools is what got me hooked on Unix in 1997. That and not getting cryptic error messages from Win NT that I could actually dig all the way down and troubleshoot. >:[