On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 12:31:20 (+0000), Andy Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:57:41PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400
> > gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> > >  My fav editor, geany is also
> > > dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as
> > > me. So there is a common problem.
> > 
> > Well, you could do it the right way: edit as you with geany in a work
> > directory, copy to/from the real location with a root-powered file
> > manager, such as mc under sudo in a terminal. Alter owner/perms as
> > required with mc.
> 
> The idea that this is the "right" way kind of horrifies me. 😀
> 
> Not that I would attempt to suggest that Gene goes this way, but
> feature rich editors like vim and emacs can easily write to files
> through sudo or sftp, thus enabling seamless editing of files as
> different users and even on different hosts.

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> To me, that is closer to the "right" way to do this sort of thing.
> It's really worth spending the time to learn how to do this sort of
> thing in one of the advanced editors.

I don't recall ever editing a file as root and needing anything
beyond the capabilities of nano. What kind of "advanced" editing
would one do?

(I don't run mc and emacs as root either; their capabilities are
too dangerous, in my estimation.)

Cheers,
David.

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