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Text editor war (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wish I could just edit text files as sudo with the default gnome text editor instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does ’sudo gedit’ not work?

Disclaimer: I use neither gnome nor gedit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does ’sudo gedit’ not work?

If my memory doesn't fail me it used to. But gedit isnt the default text editor anymore. The new one is quite cool and clean.

It doesnt work with sudo though sadly. It's not the biggest problem tho, just a small annoyance, using the occasional sudo nano to edit files isnt a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I heard that it is safer to do sudoedit [file] instead of sudo [editor] [file]. At least it's like this in vim. Idk about nano and Emacs tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sudo XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 DISPLAY=:0 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=/run/user/1000/bus XAUTHORITY=/home/caseyweederman/.Xauthority gedit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

sudo XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 DISPLAY=:0 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=/run/user/1000/bus XAUTHORITY=/home/caseyweederman/.Xauthority gedit

Reported for hacking.