From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nano: Update to 5.9
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:40:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26E16FA2-AA87-45AA-8B7F-66C6293CC971@ipfire.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9a840f-c75d-20bc-f029-499b176c7383@ipfire.org>
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Hello,
visudo launching nano would really surprise me :)
-Michael
> On 11 Oct 2021, at 21:57, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> On 11/10/2021 18:14, Jon Murphy wrote:
>> Vim as default is fine!
>>
>> The only default editor setting I know of is in fcron.
>>
>> # Location of the default editor for "fcrontab -e"
>> #editor = /usr/bin/vi
>> editor = /usr/bin/nano
>> Is there another?
>>
> If you want to edit the sudoers file you have to use the visudo command which by default uses vi.
>
> You can use nano with visudo by running
>
> # EDITOR=nano visudo
>
> and to change the editor permanently add the following into the sudoers file.
>
> # Reset environment by default
> Defaults env_reset
> # Set default EDITOR to nano, and do not allow visudo to use EDITOR/VISUAL.
> Defaults editor=/usr/bin/nano, !env_editor
>
> Regards,
>
> Adolf.
>
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 11, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>> On 10 Oct 2021, at 20:42, Jon Murphy <jcmurphy26(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I’m not sure nano is "the" answer though I do like it. Just anything besides vim.
>>>>
>>>> Vim is fine for developers. It is the non-developers that struggle. This article explains it pretty well and it includes my struggles to exit!
>>>>
>>>> https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/
>>>>
>>>> Q: How do you generate a random string?
>>>> A: Put a user in front of vi, and tell them to exit
>>>
>>> LOL. Good one.
>>>
>>> I wouldn’t be against adding nano to the core distribution, although I would draw the line there and say that Joe is then out :)
>>>
>>> However, I wouldn’t want to make it the default editor if that is okay.
>>>
>>> -Michael
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 10, 2021, at 7:55 AM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> We have (or had) a couple of editors and I am quite against shipping them all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Everyone has their favourites, and there will always be another one.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is wrong with vim?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Michael
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 9 Oct 2021, at 22:07, Jon Murphy <jcmurphy26(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible to move `nano` from addon to core? It is SOOOOO much easier to use than vim.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I understand it is an easy installed addon but it seems like it really belongs in "core".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jon
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Oct 9, 2021, at 5:56 AM, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 08/10/2021 19:22, Matthias Fischer wrote:
>>>>>>>> For details see:
>>>>>>>> https://www.nano-editor.org/news.php
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> lfs/nano | 6 +++---
>>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/lfs/nano b/lfs/nano
>>>>>>>> index 3bb7806aa..237dfab20 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/lfs/nano
>>>>>>>> +++ b/lfs/nano
>>>>>>>> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>>>>>>>> include Config
>>>>>>>> -VER = 5.8
>>>>>>>> +VER = 5.9
>>>>>>>> THISAPP = nano-$(VER)
>>>>>>>> DL_FILE = $(THISAPP).tar.xz
>>>>>>>> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ DL_FROM = $(URL_IPFIRE)
>>>>>>>> DIR_APP = $(DIR_SRC)/$(THISAPP)
>>>>>>>> TARGET = $(DIR_INFO)/$(THISAPP)
>>>>>>>> PROG = nano
>>>>>>>> -PAK_VER = 38
>>>>>>>> +PAK_VER = 39
>>>>>>>> DEPS = ""
>>>>>>>> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
>>>>>>>> $(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
>>>>>>>> -$(DL_FILE)_MD5 = d2249e3dd108c830df00efd7c1b79d86
>>>>>>>> +$(DL_FILE)_MD5 = 24b67a7a2e731d3a5ec6d154b4521d08
>>>>>>>> install : $(TARGET)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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[not found] <11C8156B-0713-41A0-B3F8-74927F47D03A@gmail.com>
2021-10-11 20:57 ` Adolf Belka
2021-10-12 9:40 ` Michael Tremer [this message]
[not found] <668607DA-B692-46E1-A6CE-6027D21A30FB@gmail.com>
2021-10-11 13:07 ` Michael Tremer
2021-10-08 17:22 Matthias Fischer
2021-10-09 10:56 ` Adolf Belka
2021-10-09 21:07 ` Jon Murphy
2021-10-10 12:55 ` Michael Tremer
2021-10-10 15:15 ` Tom Rymes
2021-10-11 13:05 ` Michael Tremer
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