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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
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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:
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> Hi Jon,
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> On 11/10/2021 18:14, Jon Murphy wrote:
>> Vim as default is fine!
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>> The only default editor setting I know of is in fcron.
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>> # Location of the default editor for "fcrontab -e"
>> #editor     =3D   /usr/bin/vi
>> editor      =3D   /usr/bin/nano
>>  Is there another?
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> If you want to edit the sudoers file you have to use the visudo command whi=
ch by default uses vi.
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> You can use nano with visudo by running
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> # EDITOR=3Dnano visudo
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> and to change the editor permanently add the following into the sudoers fil=
e.
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> # Reset environment by default
> Defaults      env_reset
> # Set default EDITOR to nano, and do not allow visudo to use EDITOR/VISUAL.
> Defaults      editor=3D/usr/bin/nano, !env_editor
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> Regards,
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> Adolf.
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>>> On Oct 11, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org>=
 wrote:
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>>> Hello,
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>>>> On 10 Oct 2021, at 20:42, Jon Murphy <jcmurphy26(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> I=E2=80=99m not sure nano is "the" answer though I do like it.  Just any=
thing besides vim.
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>>>> Vim is fine for developers.  It is the non-developers that struggle.  Th=
is article explains it pretty well and it includes my struggles to exit!
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>>>> https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million=
-developers-exit-vim/
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>>>> Q: How do you generate a random string?
>>>> A: Put a user in front of vi, and tell them to exit
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>>> LOL. Good one.
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>>> I wouldn=E2=80=99t be against adding nano to the core distribution, altho=
ugh I would draw the line there and say that Joe is then out :)
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>>> However, I wouldn=E2=80=99t want to make it the default editor if that is=
 okay.
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>>> -Michael
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>>>>> On Oct 10, 2021, at 7:55 AM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.or=
g> wrote:
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>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>=20
>>>>> We have (or had) a couple of editors and I am quite against shipping th=
em all.
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>>>>> Everyone has their favourites, and there will always be another one.
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>>>>> What is wrong with vim?
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>>>>> -Michael
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>>>>>> On 9 Oct 2021, at 22:07, Jon Murphy <jcmurphy26(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> All,
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>>>>>> Is it possible to move `nano` from addon to core?  It is SOOOOO much e=
asier to use than vim.
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>>>>>> I understand it is an easy installed addon but it seems like it really=
 belongs in "core".
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>>>>>> Jon
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>>>>>>> On Oct 9, 2021, at 5:56 AM, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wr=
ote:
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>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org>
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>>>>>>> On 08/10/2021 19:22, Matthias Fischer wrote:
>>>>>>>> For details see:
>>>>>>>> https://www.nano-editor.org/news.php
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>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> lfs/nano | 6 +++---
>>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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>>>>>>>> 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        =3D 5.8
>>>>>>>> +VER        =3D 5.9
>>>>>>>> THISAPP    =3D nano-$(VER)
>>>>>>>> DL_FILE    =3D $(THISAPP).tar.xz
>>>>>>>> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ DL_FROM    =3D $(URL_IPFIRE)
>>>>>>>> DIR_APP    =3D $(DIR_SRC)/$(THISAPP)
>>>>>>>> TARGET     =3D $(DIR_INFO)/$(THISAPP)
>>>>>>>> PROG       =3D nano
>>>>>>>> -PAK_VER    =3D 38
>>>>>>>> +PAK_VER    =3D 39
>>>>>>>> DEPS       =3D ""
>>>>>>>> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ objects =3D $(DL_FILE)
>>>>>>>> $(DL_FILE) =3D $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
>>>>>>>> -$(DL_FILE)_MD5 =3D d2249e3dd108c830df00efd7c1b79d86
>>>>>>>> +$(DL_FILE)_MD5 =3D 24b67a7a2e731d3a5ec6d154b4521d08
>>>>>>>> install : $(TARGET)
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