What Is the Default Editor in Ubuntu?
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Text Editor (gedit) is the default GUI text editor in the Ubuntu operating system. It is UTF-8 compatible and supports most standard text editor features as well as many advanced features.

What is default editor in Linux?

Set Nano as the Default Text Editor

By default on most Linux systems, the default text editor for commands such as visudo and crontab is set to vi. To use nano as the default text editor, you need to change the VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables .

How do I find the default editor in Linux?

Setting the default text editor

  1. Log in to your account using SSH.
  2. Open the . bashrc file in your preferred text editor.
  3. Add the following lines to the .bashrc file. …
  4. Save the changes to the . …
  5. To make the new default text editor settings take effect, log out of your account and then log back in.
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