On 19 November 2015 at 03:18, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 03:09:34PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> To the bug in question: probably we should make it so 'sudo gedit' does
> work, but I'd still strongly discourage anyone from actually doing so.
Actually, there's a better way. The authors of sudo already considered
this. Set "VISUAL" to gedit, and use `sudo -e`. That invokes the editor
as non-root on a temporary file, and copies that temp file into place
when done.
Completely forgot about that one! I remember using crontab's similar
function was the first time I encountered vi, that was lots of fun...
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