On Sun, 2022-07-24 at 04:19 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > > > there are specific instances of vi, like visudo, which solves a > > > particular problem that other editors do not (man visudo goes > > > into > > > what's special about it). > > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > Despite the name, visudo can be used with any editor. The man page > > gives an example. > > > > Yes, you can use a different editor, but I think you lose the > features it offered you.
I haven't used it but I'm not sure that's true. It applies locking to the /etc/sudoers file, and does a syntax check before installing the edited version, but neither of those things would depend on the specific editor. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
