On 02/06/2019 03:29 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:47:26PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 02/04/2019 12:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
If [as root] I do > export EDITOR=/usr/bin/pluma
before
> visudo
things *approximately* work ;/
Pluma, not nano, is invoked.
Not bad :-)
$EDITOR is not preserved across sessions.
This is to be expected: this "export... " is only good for this
one shell session.
I've seen mention of a remedy, but the reference is missing at moment.
Most probably you should add
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/pluma
to your /etc/profile (for all users) or to $HOME/.xsession (for one
specific user). Don't know for sure whether MATE picks that up there
(others might chime in).
My attempt at that failed :{
HOWEVER *GRIN*
I came across galternatives {A front-end to the update-alternatives}.
Related links include: > https://wiki.debian.org/TextEditor
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives
>
https://debian-administration.org/article/91/Using_the_Debian_alternatives_system
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/08/msg02808.html
> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/galternatives
>
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/galternatives/galternatives.1.en.html
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1451141
Now to explore "What can sudo do for me".
