Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 09:23:41AM -0400, Maurice Heskett wrote: > On 6/21/23 08:33, Andy Smith wrote: > > I'm sure there are other advanced editors that can do the same. > > Maybe geany can; I'm not familiar with it. > You are missing out on one of linux's better coding efforts Andy. I have yet > to have it make a mistake my fingers didn't make first.
There would have to be a very compelling feature or features in geany over vim, to tempt me to switch. > > The basic principle being to edit a file as > > sftp://user@host:/path so as to do the read/write as that user, > > not yourself. (host could be localhost). > > That is a lot of typing, subject to typu's from ancient fat fingers, so I > usually cd to where the file lives and edit it directly. But everybody has > their own style, and that is mine. There doesn't seem like a lot of difference in number of keystrokes between: $ cd /path/to/dir $ sudo geany file.txt and what I would do in vim which is: :e /path/to/dir/file (it will work out it needs to do sudo by itself) You would only use the sftp:// thing for remote files or for editing as a different non-root user. And it all tab-completes, by the way, even remote paths, assuming you have read+search permissions. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
