Or perhaps you can consider providing plug interfaces for other editors (editors would need to be snaps as well and provide slot interfaces)?
Thanks! Lai ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lai Wei-Hwa" <[email protected]> To: "lxc-users" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 1:06:56 PM Subject: Re: [lxc-users] Snap 2.20 - Default Text Editor Thanks for the clarification, Stephane. I was actually unaware that snaps couldn't interact with binaries outside of the ones it owns. Makes sense and adds some security. That being said, are there any plans to add nano and/or vim to the snap package? While it would make for a larger snap package, a lot of our breed are quite particular about their editors and I can see this being an annoyance for many. Thanks! Lai ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stéphane Graber" <[email protected]> To: "lxc-users" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2017 2:44:27 AM Subject: Re: [lxc-users] Snap 2.20 - Default Text Editor Because of the way the snap works, it doesn't actually have access to your system's filesystem and so can't run commands from your system. Only binaries that are part of the snap or the minimal copy of Ubuntu that the snap uses can be used by it. We ship a copy of vi in our snap to make the editor function work, that's why you get vi regardless of what EDITOR/VISUAL points to in your environment. You can workaround this by using something like: lxc config show NAME > out.yaml <favorite editor> out.yaml lxc config edit NAME < out.yaml The same is possible for all the other objects which come with an "edit" command. On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 09:57:11AM -0500, Lai Wei-Hwa wrote: > Ron, > > You're telling me the normal way to set your default editor. I know how to do > this. The problem is that my default editor is nano, which I want, but when I: > $ lxc profile edit default > It still opens in VI. This is an LXC issue. > > Thanks! > Lai > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Kelley" <[email protected]> > To: "lxc-users" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:07:32 PM > Subject: Re: [lxc-users] Snap 2.20 - Default Text Editor > > sudo update-alternatives --config editor > > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Set_Vim_as_your_default_editor_for_Unix > > > > > > > On Nov 21, 2017, at 7:49 PM, Lai Wei-Hwa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks, but that's the problem, it's still opening in VI > > > > Thanks! > > Lai > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Björn Fischer" <[email protected]> > > To: "lxc-users" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 7:46:58 PM > > Subject: Re: [lxc-users] Snap 2.20 - Default Text Editor > > > > Hi, > > > >> $ lxc profile edit default > >> Opens in VI even though my editor is nano (save the flaming) > >> > >> How can we edit the default editor? > > > > $ EDITOR=nano > > $ export EDITOR > > > > Cheers, > > > > Björn > > _______________________________________________ > > lxc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users > > _______________________________________________ > > lxc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users > > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
