[nylug-talk] Ubuntu's lack of root.

[David Rosenstrauch]

Well, true.  But along the lines of "couldn't resist" ...

You forgot about tab completion.  sudoe<tab> saves me a few keystrokes 
over typing "sudo nano".

Let's see ... multiply that by 5 times a day, over the course of a year ...


:-)

DR

Mike Allred wrote:
> Unless the name of <your-favorite-editor> is <= 3 characters long, in which
> case sudoedit is not a shortcut at all.
> 
> Long live vim!
> 
> /couldn't resist, it's hot out
> 
> On 6/30/06, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
>>
>> mike at jurney.org wrote:
>> > Seriously.  You shouldn't ever be root unless you're doing something
>> that
>> > absolutely requires it.  Doing `sudo vim /etc/hosts` is smarter in 
>> every
>> > way than doing `ssh root at localhost (log in); vim /etc/hosts; (leave 
>> root
>> > shell sitting around open in an xterm for the next 3 days in case you
>> need
>> > to do something else); logout;`.
>>
>> FYI (if you weren't aware already), "sudoedit <some-file>" is a nice
>> shortcut for "sudo <your-favorite-editor> <some-file>".
>>
>> DR