Change Ansible Vault editor from vi to nano

Question

Every time I create an encrypted file or open an encrypted file for editing, it open in vi editor. Then later I realized that vi is the default editor. How do I change it to nano? Is it possible?

Answer 1

By default, the editor used by the vault is vi. Follow these steps to change it to nano:

open your ~/.bashrc file:

nano ~/.bashrc

Add the following line:

export EDITOR=nano

Save and close

And you're done!

Hope it helped:)