From: Sergiu Ivanov <sivanov@colimite.fr>
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 18:05:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a60jdx0m.fsf@colimite.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac17882d-5ef3-9914-84a8-1a63071fbe8f@posteo.de>
Hi Gottfried,
Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> [2023-03-11T11:33:33+0100]:
>
> because of my limited knowledge
> when opening my config.scm file with sudo
> I can do it only with nano
The strategy I personally prefer is to edit a file in my home directory
and then sudo cp to /etc/config.scm.
More concretely, I store my system configuration in
~/.config/guix/system-config.scm. I edit it with Emacs, as I would edit
any other normal file. When I am done editing, I do what essentially is
sudo cp ~/.config/guix/system-config.scm /etc/config.scm
I use Emacs's Dired mode + Tramp to actually do the copy, but that's
inessential to the strategy.
One advantage of this approach is that you can version your local file
using Git or some other version control system (VCS). Even without VCS,
editing a local copy of your system configuration may prevent some
silly mistakes.
-
Sergiu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-11 17:22 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
2023-03-11 17:05 ` Sergiu Ivanov [this message]
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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