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From: Jeff Bauer <jeffrubic@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: editing /etc/sudoers
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:48:40 -0500
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 09:53:46AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Try
>
> VISUAL=/path/tp/my/editor visudo
>
> See the man-page for details

Nope, same error:

$ VISUAL=~/.guix-profile/bin/vim visudo -f ~/etc/guix/config.scm
visudo: no editor found (editor path = /usr/bin/vi)

It appears /usr/bin/vi is hard-coded into the guix version
of visudo.  EDITOR or VISUAL works for me on non-guix systems.

-Jeff