Translations:Text editor/5/en
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As with most things Gentoo, text editor choice is up to the user. As a text editor will be necessary during and just after installation, the virtual package, virtual/editor (part of the system set), will pull in app-editors/nano[1] (as the first "any of many" dependency of the ebuild) as a fallback - until another "virtual/editor" package is emerged.