From 47f82b310e320ed6c0282c89748485d1f9212d2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raghav Gururajan Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:55:40 -0400 Subject: guix: edit: Make nano the default editor. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * guix/scripts/edit.scm: Make nano the default editor. Nano is sensible default, as it is installed by base system. For development, user can set custom value for $EDITOR. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès --- guix/scripts/edit.scm | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/guix/scripts/edit.scm b/guix/scripts/edit.scm index a6fd1d2751..43f3011869 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/edit.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/edit.scm @@ -56,10 +56,9 @@ Start $VISUAL or $EDITOR to edit the definitions of PACKAGE...\n")) (show-bug-report-information)) (define %editor - ;; XXX: It would be better to default to something more likely to be - ;; pre-installed on an average GNU system. Since Nano is not suited for - ;; editing Scheme, Emacs is used instead. - (make-parameter (or (getenv "VISUAL") (getenv "EDITOR") "emacs"))) + ;; Nano is sensible default, as it is installed by base system. + ;; For development, user can set custom value for $EDITOR. + (make-parameter (or (getenv "VISUAL") (getenv "EDITOR") "nano"))) (define (search-path* path file) "Like 'search-path' but exit if FILE is not found." -- cgit 1.4.1