How to Set Default Editor as Nano in Linux

If you want to change your Linux default editor, read the article for how to do it. Setting nano as default editor permanently in Linux.

I don’t like to use Vi, Vim or etc. It can be painfully for me when i need to edit something. They’re old-school editors and i’m not a fan.

Anyway, this post will guide you to change your default editor in your Linux. Your linux distro can be Ubuntu, Centos or etc.

Open the terminal or log in to your server using SSH.
Open the ~/.bashrc file with a text editor. If you’re in the root directory, you can just type nano .bashrc to the console.
Add the following line to bottom of file.
- export EDITOR='/usr/bin/nano'
Reload your profile file with the following command or, logout and login back.
- source ~/.bashrc

Thats it!

If you’re using another shell in your terminal like ZSH, you should use relevant profile file. For ZSH it’s .zshrc

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