Do you feel that you get the wrong editor when you type ‘crontab -e’ or have the wrong default editor in general in FreeBSD and/or FreeNAS? Here is how to change the default editor.
Change default editor in FreeBSD and FreeNAS
To change the default editor for an ordinary user, login as that user and type:
nano ~/.profile
and change the row with ‘EDITOR’ in it to:
EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/nano; export EDITOR
To change the default editor for root, login as root and type:
nano ~/.cshrc
and change the row with ‘setenv EDITOR’ in it to:
setenv EDITOR /usr/local/bin/nano
That’s it! The next time you reboot/login as that user the default editor is changed.
