On 19 November 2015 at 03:18, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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... -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
