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Change default editor

There is a quick way to change your default editor, whichever you want.

First open up a terminal by going to Applications > Accessories > Terminal (in Ubuntu) or press Alt + F2 and type in terminal. Now that you have a terminal open, let’s get down to viewing your history.

Open up .bashrc by typing:

[bash]
gedit ~/.bashrc
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Now to change your bash default editor find

[bash]
export EDITOR
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However, if you can’t find that, just add this to the top.

[bash]
export EDITOR=gedit
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Personally I like gedit. You can use pico (/usr/bin/pico), nano (/usr/bin/nano), or any other editor you like.

Like always, you can learn more about this by doing the following:

[bash]
man bash
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