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Does it give alternative to
sudo -e
(sudoedit) too?As the other comment said, no. But I've had the idea and will to at some point write a
edit
script (that I can just setEDITOR=
to) that would just choose one of the first common editors. That could in theory have a-0
option to run as root (there also probably looking throughrun0
,doas
,sudo
andsu
). Not the editor, but doing the editing on a temp file and then copying with root