On 6/21/23 09:33, Andy Smith wrote:
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.
Another point where we differ in method. My home network, all behind dd-wrt,
is sshfs based since I'm normally user 1000 on all machines, so the base is
/sshnet/machine_name and all live machines are home/me mounted there.
And it just works, unlike samba/cifs or nfs any flavor, both of which
seem to be
like touchy women, only working one or maybe 2 days a week. I like
dependability.
Gene Heskett
Cheers,
Andy
