What are these for?

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 21 15:19:23 UTC 2012


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:02:54PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > And what if the user in the wheel group wants to use emacs to edit some
> > configuration file that can only be modified by root?
> They can use su if they want to use emacs for it.

Or better, set VISUAL=emacs and run `sudo -e`, which was designed for this
purpose. (And which, by the way, will work out of the box on Fedora for
members of the wheel group.)


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