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.
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Matthew Miller
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