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

if you want vi to be your default history editor (which is why I'm here)

edit ~/.bashrc and add

set -o vi

anywhere in the file. Then all the lovely vi command history is available (esc k etc).

Sorry if this is slightly off topic, but my search landed me here....