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While reading the git introductory material, I read a piece that brought this question to mind.

How do I use the Terminal to find out what my Default Text Editor is?

Are there a General Commands that I can use to find this out?

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answered 1 Year ago cocal · Accepted Answer

The default editor is as defined by the EDITOR, or VISUAL, environment variable(s).

The default editor is vi if neither were defined. Add

export EDITOR="/bin/nano"

to your ~/.bashrc file to set, for example, nano as your default editor.

To see if the environment variable is set, you can use

printenv | grep EDITOR

or

set | grep EDITOR

One can dereference the value of the named environment variable by prefixing it with a "$"

$ echo $EDITOR

or

$ echo $VISUAL