Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

[Kyle <kyle@posteo.net>]

Hi Gottfried, 

I had some success editing things owned by the root user in emacs using Tramp.

The syntax a bit confusing. You search for the file in the usual way in Emacs, but you delete all the text it fills in for you and instead replace it with:

```
 /sudo:$USER@localhost:/etc/config.scm
```

You can replace $USER with your username.

On March 11, 2023 12:05:01 PM EST, Sergiu Ivanov <sivanov@colimite.fr> wrote:
>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
>