Hi David, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 04:53:06PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 12:31:20 (+0000), Andy Smith wrote: > > 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.
> 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'm saying that the more advanced editors have features to only do the I/O as root, so one can enjoy all the other features of the editor without running the whole editor as root, so that bypasses the issue of "it's a bad idea to run a complex app (editor) as root". You can just run it as you and still write to such files when you need to. I personally feel that it was a force multiplier for me when I went from nano¹ to a more complex editor, but I'm not going to try to convince anyone else. One day I might even get around to using one of these new-fangled shells instead of bash. 😀 Cheers, Andy ¹ Well, pico for me, which was what nano was a clone of. -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
