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[James McCoy <jamessan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Of the Vim packages, only vim-tiny is installed by default and it has a
lower priority than nano.  Choosing to install other editor packages
implies that you know how to use them and won't be bothered by them now
being the provider for editor.

If that's not true, then you can manually change the editor alternative
to nano or set $EDITOR to sensible-editor (from the sensible-utils
package) which will ask (and remember) what editor to use.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869069

Title:
  Vim $EDITOR alternative priority too high

Status in vim package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Recently (In less than 2 weeks) vim has replaced Nano as the default
  $EDITOR in Ubuntu.

  I don't want to start an editor war, but vim is not a suitable editor for
  beginners. Nano is much better alternative as it is very simple and displays
  key shortcuts always on screen. Those who really want to use vim can change the default
  themselves easily.

  $ sudo update-alternatives --config editor
  There are 6 choices for the alternative editor (providing /usr/bin/editor).

    Selection    Path                Priority   Status
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  * 0            /usr/bin/vim.gtk     50        auto mode
    1            /bin/ed             -100       manual mode
    2            /bin/nano            40        manual mode
    3            /usr/bin/emacs23     0         manual mode
    4            /usr/bin/vim.basic   30        manual mode
    5            /usr/bin/vim.gtk     50        manual mode
    6            /usr/bin/vim.tiny    10        manual mode

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: vim 2:7.3.035+hg~8fdc12103333-1ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Oct  6 14:00:36 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: vim
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-19 (139 days ago)

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