On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 23:09, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Hello Mike,
> 
> You don't have to use "vi" with visudo.
> 
> You can set EDITOR or VISUAL environment variables to point to the editor
> you want to use. visudo will honor that.
> 
> If your X allows root to run X apps, then you could try:
> 
>  VISUAL=kate visudo
> 
> (I don't run gui editors as root myself though.)
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I think that emacs is easier for the user that is familiar with GUI type
editors than vi - but hey that's just an opinion and not designed to
start an editor preference discussion.

I haven't seen the need to use sudo and I never start X as root - if I
actually need to run something as root, I open a terminal - su to root
and thus, if I wanted to run say Kate as root, I could just simply
launch it from a terminal while root.

I pretty much figured that sudo is for multiple shell users on the same
server box and I don't think that is what Michael is doing. Perhaps, if
nothing more, it is about furthering his learning while he struggles to
use the computer, primarily in X as a normal user without super user
privileges.

Craig