vim 101 hacks

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Vim 101 Hacks
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Bonus Hack 2. Set Vim as Universal Default Editor
using update-alternatives
If you are a system administrator, you may want to set Vim as default editor
for the whole system. Use update-alternatives as shown below. This works on
all Debian based system.
# update-alternatives --set editor
Bonus Hack 3. Make Vim as Default Editor
You can set Vim as default editor as shown below.
$ export EDITOR=vi
Most of the Unix applications (For example, crontab) refer this EDITOR
variable to check which editor can be used. So it is better to set this in your
bashrc
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