On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:40:33AM +0200, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: > Am 02.10.2009 11:29, schrieb forgottenwizard: > > > <insert emacs user whining> > > > > Thats an option, but seems to be a poor one. All that will do is let you > > use either vi(m) or nano for the default, which for emacs users will be > > no diffrent than the current problem. > > <joke> > If you use emacs then you are to far away to be helped ;-) > </joke> At least 8 megs of RAM isn't a problem anymore.
> > Then maybe a "custom_editor"-flag that inserts > > Defaults env_keep += "EDITOR VISUAL PAGER" > > to /etc/sudoers > > With that even emacs users would be satisfied. > > Greetings > > Sebastian > Didn't the maintainer/dev that was dealing with the bug say that he wouldn't do that because it was insecure? That also doesn't fix the problem that sudo thinks that nano is a safe fallback. How about a custom_editor flag, as you suggested, then an EDITOR variable in make.conf? Thats the only way I could see being able to solve this problem without invariably screwing someone. This would provide a fairly sane default while giving the user the choice to use something else.
