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Today i was working with a fresh newly deployed box for my new hosting plan “Sole Master Reseller Hosting”. I was trying to install some stuffs and do some changes on the crontab. Several times i was getting VI editor as the default editor set for my profile. I personally don’t like VI, as its more geeky, and i have seen using NANO from my first Linux VPS. So i was looking for a command which would change the default editor for my profile as well as change the default crontab editor. There is a command called EXPORT which can be used to do that.

You can just run the following command to change your default editor:

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export VISUAL=nano

This would change your default editor to nano. So if you want vi then you can just change the nano to vi for doing that To reload the default editor as your wish you can edit the above line in your .bashrc file. Go to /root and edit your .bashrc, add the command at the end of the file. It should change your default editor to your wish