Use micro as the default terminal text editor

[Jacalz]

I and many of my friends have had issue getting out of vi/vim and I helped them all switch to nano instead (because it was the best we have available on our university Linux systems). I personally switched to micro about a year ago and I think it is a great replacement for nano. It is very easy to use but still has a lot of features.

For this change to happen, I think we might want to install micro, remove vi or vim from base install and override the $EDITOR environment variable to /usr/bin/micro instead. For the development image, we also want to set git config --global core.editor micro.

[ghost]

Fully agree with this. Micro is great & conforms to the "standard editor" experience most people expect; There's very few edge-cases here afaict and the barrier to entry is way lower to even something like Nano (which is comparatively a lot-lot lower to get into than vi/vim) .