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On 1 Oct 2009, at 16:40, Stroller wrote: |
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> So it seems to me that you're right. It appears like maybe when |
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> `sudo` detects that it's running `visudo` it does seem to ignore |
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> $EDITOR. I, too, disagree with this behaviour. IMO the ebuild ("-- |
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> with-editor=/bin/nano") take the editor from "/etc/rc.conf", but I'm |
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> extremely curious why upstream makes this behaviour, anyway. |
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Actually READING the bug actually showed a number of reasoned |
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responses to the OP's complaint. |
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I don't think you'll have much luck debating this: since upstream |
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hardcodes it, it comes down largely to the nano-as-default-editor |
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argument, which was first made in the Paleolithic era and which has |
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been hotly debated without change since. |
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I now appear unable to access that bug: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286017 |
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Thanks for that. |
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Stroller. |
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