# What to default EDITOR in in /etc/profile? **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-Topic\ **Created:** [December 10, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410 "2020-12-10T23:25:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![neil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/neil/32/34_2.png) [@neil](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/neil)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/1 "2020-12-10T23:25:30Z")
Honestly possibly the biggest decision we will make. Personally, my base setups symlink emacs to vim. so… I don’t really care what you set EDITOR to. ---
**Author:** ![neil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/neil/32/34_2.png) [@neil](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/neil)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/2 "2020-12-10T23:26:18Z")
This was a joke by the way 😉 ) feel free to have some fun and a war though 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JMiahMan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/jmiahman/32/157_2.png) [@JMiahMan](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/JMiahMan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/3 "2020-12-10T23:28:35Z")
For sure pyvim then… ---
**Author:** ![jeffrey-a](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/jeffrey-a/32/208_2.png) [@jeffrey-a](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jeffrey-a)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/4 "2020-12-11T00:22:52Z")
I vote for EDIT.EXE via Wine. ---
**Author:** ![greg.hellings](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@greg.hellings](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/greg.hellings)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 5:47am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/5 "2020-12-11T05:47:11Z")
We need it to point to a shell script that downloads and compiles nano every time it gets invoked ---
**Author:** ![James](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/james/32/72_2.png) [@James](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/James)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/6 "2020-12-11T06:29:12Z")
Obviously emacs is the only answer ---
**Author:** ![RobVerduijn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/47e85d/32.png) [@RobVerduijn](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/RobVerduijn)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/7 "2020-12-11T08:34:25Z")
since rockylinux is going to be a byte for byte copy of centos, the default editor can be found by looking up what’s it set to in centos. Rob ---
**Author:** ![ShehuAwwal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/shehuawwal/32/181_2.png) [@ShehuAwwal](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/ShehuAwwal)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/8 "2020-12-11T10:28:53Z")
Let’s have **vim** as the default editor. ---
**Author:** ![teskor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@teskor](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/teskor)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/9 "2020-12-11T10:43:05Z")
we should write our own. If it delays the project, no problem, never underestimate the importance of an own editor 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![keshlam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@keshlam](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/keshlam)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/10 "2020-12-11T13:22:00Z")
Teco. The APL of text processing. ---
**Author:** ![robb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/robb/32/148_2.png) [@robb](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/robb)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/11 "2020-12-11T13:23:23Z")
Whatever the default is, my first thing after yum update will be a yum install nano… ---
**Author:** ![keshlam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@keshlam](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/keshlam)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/12 "2020-12-11T13:23:31Z")
But, but, but … That makes sense. Are we _allowed_ to be reasonable in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![hbjy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/hbjy/32/17_2.png) [@hbjy](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/hbjy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/13 "2020-12-11T13:26:27Z")
Why are we _not_ considering bundling Openbox and VSCode in the ISOs? Then, whenever someone uses $EDITOR, it opens a GUI with VS Code open to the file! ---
**Author:** ![robb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/robb/32/148_2.png) [@robb](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/robb)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/14 "2020-12-11T13:32:14Z")
> [@hbjy](#): > > VSCode because it comes from the big bad antichrist. ---
**Author:** ![jeffrey-a](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/jeffrey-a/32/208_2.png) [@jeffrey-a](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jeffrey-a)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/15 "2020-12-11T13:52:49Z")
Many disable X11Forwarding by default which could be problematic in a remote console session. Clearly we’ll need to make sure X11Forwarding disablement is itself disabled. ---
**Author:** ![robb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/robb/32/148_2.png) [@robb](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/robb)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/16 "2020-12-11T14:47:57Z")
hmzz… what’s to forward if there is no x11? ---
**Author:** ![adriaand007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@adriaand007](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/adriaand007)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/17 "2020-12-11T14:57:21Z")
Hi all If we are going to stick to be as close to Red Hat / CentOS as posible lets stay with VIM Adriaan ---
**Author:** ![JMiahMan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/jmiahman/32/157_2.png) [@JMiahMan](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/JMiahMan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/18 "2020-12-11T18:03:46Z")
I didn’t think this was a serious answer thread lol. ---
**Author:** ![jeffrey-a](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/jeffrey-a/32/208_2.png) [@jeffrey-a](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jeffrey-a)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/19 "2020-12-11T18:39:55Z")
@robb It’s X11 emulated on top of Wayland, to make your desktop environment extra spicy. And no, everyone, this was meant as a joke thread 🙂 I am certainly not going to be held responsible when someone comes looking for who suggested what I’ve suggested hahaha ---
**Author:** ![DavidE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/davide/32/219_2.png) [@DavidE](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/DavidE)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410/20 "2020-12-11T19:04:14Z")
I would strongly recommend to port XCode to rockylinux so we can edit more files, not just profile. So first things first, we need to reverse engineer this stuff. [Next page](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-to-default-editor-in-in-etc-profile/410.md?page=2)