gksudo 16.10

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 11:50:34 UTC 2016


On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:


> I understand that nobody mentions vi{,m}. I would recommend
>
>   sudo nano /path/to/file
>
> AFAIK nano is installed by default. I make it the default editor for
> all of my installs.
>
>   $ grep EDITOR .bashrc
>   export EDITOR="nano"

I only use vi/vim but who cares really?


> Too funny, since
>
>   sudo visudo
>
> doesn't work, to get nano, it requires to run
>
>   sudo -i
>   visudo

IIRC, in Debian and Ubuntu, visudo calls $EDITOR not vi (as the name
would imply). Since sudo resets the environment, that envvar's empty.




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