[ansgri]

It's of course available, but not installed by default, and when e.g. you git commit from console, it by default launches Nano with its counterintuitive shortcuts.

[drdaeman]

Put `export EDITOR=ne` line in your `~/.profile` (or `~/.bashrc` or `~/.zshrc` or whatever). That should do the trick.

[maxerickson]

I was trying to git better the other day and one of the early suggestions in something I looked at was to set a comfortable default editor.