Unable to change the default editor in terminal

Question

My default editor is pico at my server. I use Bash and Linux.

I tried to change Vim to be my default editor unsuccessfully by

echo vim > $EDITOR
         


        

Answer 1

You can use the git config option core.editor to set the editor of your liking, eg nano

$ git config [--global] core.editor "nano"

You can also change this by editing the .gitconfig file in your home directory (global) or git repo (create it if it doesn't exist) if you don't have shell access:

...
[user]
  name = Your Name
  email = your@email.address
[core]
  editor = nano
...