From: Bruno Victal <mirai@makinata.eu>
To: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 11:03:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5581842e-2cee-0824-a996-f16e23eaba92@makinata.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac17882d-5ef3-9914-84a8-1a63071fbe8f@posteo.de>
Hi Gottfried,
On 2023-03-11 10:33, Gottfried wrote:
> Hi,
>
> because of my limited knowledge
> when opening my config.scm file with sudo
> I can do it only with nano
> But nano doesn’t show the matching parenthesis.
>
> 1.
> I would like to open my config.scm file with emacs or gedit,
> because both show the matching parenthesis.
Change the EDITOR environment variable, i.e.
$ export EDITOR=emacs
>
> How can I do that?
> .....................................................
> 2.
> In emacs it opens the file only in read-able mode.
> How can I change this?
Use sudoedit.
>
> 4.
> Are there commands on the command line
> to open my config.scm file with emacs/gedit in sudo mode?
> ....................................................
EDITOR=emacs sudoedit config.scm
Cheers,
Bruno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-11 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-11 10:33 open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs Gottfried
2023-03-11 10:57 ` Thanos Apollo
2023-03-11 11:03 ` Bruno Victal [this message]
2023-03-11 17:05 ` Sergiu Ivanov
2023-03-11 18:58 ` Kyle
2023-03-11 23:42 ` SeerLite
2023-03-12 7:07 ` Boris A. Dekshteyn
2023-03-12 9:33 ` SeerLite
2023-03-12 11:00 ` Sergiu Ivanov
2023-03-12 18:13 ` Luis Felipe
2023-03-12 19:05 ` Sergiu Ivanov
2023-03-12 13:27 ` Felix Lechner via
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