Vim as default editor

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I tried export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim but maybe the “nano-default-editor” rpm installed by default has a higher priority or smt?

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The only thing that should matter is the $EDITOR variable.

I have added this in my .zshrc:

if [ "$EDITOR" = "/usr/bin/nano" ]; then
        export EDITOR=vim
fi
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I am using bash (the default) and I have added the following four lines to the end of $HOME/.bashrc file:

# Set default text editor
if [ -f /usr/bin/vim ]; then
    export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
fi

If statement checks if vim program is installed and export does sets the default text editor variable to vim.

Save the file and in terminal:
source $HOME/.bashrc
or logout of Blufin (or other variant) and log back in.

Check if setting is correct:
echo $EDITOR
and it should be displayed: /usr/bin/vim

EDIT: Some tools may not respect this, because they sanitize environment variables. For example sudo visudo still opens in Nano. To open visudo in vim then start visudo with: sudo EDITOR=vim visudo and I suggest to also add the following at the end of opened config file:

## Default text editor
Defaults editor=/usr/bin/vim
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