Why visudo when you can use nano?

[frank56]

I am quite comfortable with nano. But I still would like to know what advantages there are to using vi editor , over nano. I input a web search with same question, but did not get the answer I was looking for. Frank

Thanks Ozar, for pointing me in the right direction. I was confusing vi vim and visudo.
I found a website that gave me the advantages of the vi editor and how to use it.
I will post the link in hopes it may help someone else.

VI and VIM editor: Tutorial and advanced features

[oz]

The visudo command is for editing the sudoers file:

visudo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You can use nano to do that but it's not as safe to do so.

Otherwise, vi and vim are much more powerful as text editors than is nano, but you should use whatever you need for your purposes, or want to use.

[reed9]

You can also use nano as the editor in visudo.

sudo EDITOR=nano visudo

[oz]

If I'm not mistaken, there are some other editors that can be used with the proper variables, as well. I used to use nano without the variables for carefully editing the sudoers file but was lucky to have never had any problems, I suppose.