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[Jani Uusitalo <jani@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The community wiki currently claims that the default editor for visudo
has been sensible-editor since 8.10 [1]. But for me in both 12.04 and
14.04, `sudo visudo` still launches /etc/alternatives/editor, so select-
editor doesn't actually change visudo's editor; for that I have to run
`sudo update-alternatives --config editor`. So I suspect that either the
wiki has incorrect advice, or this bug has been fixed, and has since
reappeared.


* [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers?action=recall&rev=25#content

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280877

Title:
  visudo does not use sensible-editor

Status in debianutils package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in sudo package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: debianutils

  Installed Intrepid Beta and issued the following command:

  $ sudo visudo

  I was brought immediately into a nano session.

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