There's also a version of THE for Windows. It's up to 3.3 beta 3 on http://sourceforge.net/projects/hessling-editor/ . That said, X2 looks a lot more usable now than it did the last time I looked at it.
Douglas Hooray for command lines! From: "Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)" <ann.sm...@thehartford.com> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 12/31/2008 02:27 PM Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Basic question I actually still use THE editor on SLES10 (The Hessling Editor). I've never tried X2. I'm still upset that Mansfield software won't be supporting KEDIT for Windows any more. I will check out X2. In this case I used VISUDO just because the customer insisted they still did not have sudo. In the end he was just having a bad day and forgot to type 'sudo' before the command. The sudoers file was actually okay. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Leslie Turriff Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:14 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Basic question BTW, If you'd like to use an editor other than vi, the visudo man page describes the editor and env_editor variables. (My preferred editor is the X2 Programmer's Editor by Blair W. Thompson <http://www.tangbu.com/x2main.shtml>) >From the visudo man page: editor A colon (':') separated list of editors allowed to be used with visudo. visudo will choose the editor that matches the user's EDITOR environment variable if possible, or the first editor in the list that exists and is executable. The default is the path to vi on your system. env_editor If set, visudo will use the value of the EDITOR or VISUAL environment variables before falling back on the default editor list. Note that this may create a security hole as it allows the user to run any arbitrary command as root without logging. A safer alternative is to place a colon-separated list of editors in the editor variable. visudo will then only use the EDI TOR or VISUAL if they match a value specified in editor. This flag is on by default. Leslie Turriff On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) wrote: > I need to update sudoers and don't know proper procedure. > Figured I'd ask before I mess it up. I did at least create a backup of > /etc/sudoers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ************************************************************ This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this communication and destroy all copies. ************************************************************ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
