Changing Default Programs

[Owen Townend]

On 20/06/2008, Phil Sexton <philsexton at skybest.com> wrote:
> Alan Milnes wrote:
>  > Phil Sexton wrote:
>  >> gksudo gedit /etc/gnome/defaults.list
>  >>
>  > Does anybody still use the gksudo command?  If so why?  Doesn't sudo
>  > work fine with graphical programs now?
>
>
> I haven't tried any graphical programs with sudo.  I usually use
>  nano for my command line text editor, ie:
>
>  sudo nano /etc/gnome/defaults.list
>
>

Hey,
  Why not `sudoedit /etc/gnome/defaults.list`?
  You can set your choice using the EDITOR environmental variable or
add a line to /etc/sudoers.
  For pure expediancy s-u-d-o-e<tab> is easier than specifying an
editor explicitly as in your example of `sudo nano`.

cheers,
Owen.