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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/__init__.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/__init__.py b/lib/spack/spack/__init__.py
index 88375d02cd..6046663ea8 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/__init__.py
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ spack_version = Version("1.0")
from spack.util.executable import Executable, which
# User's editor from the environment
-editor = Executable(os.environ.get("EDITOR", ""))
+editor = Executable(os.environ.get("EDITOR", "vi"))
# Curl tool for fetching files.
curl = which("curl", required=True)