On 6/21/23 07:58, Joe wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400
gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
My fav editor, geany is also
dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as
me. So there is a common problem.
Well, you could do it the right way: edit as you with geany in a work
directory, copy to/from the real location with a root-powered file
manager, such as mc under sudo in a terminal. Alter owner/perms as
required with mc.
That way still allows mistakes to be made, but you made a renamed copy
of the edited file before you started, didn't you? Using a non-gui
graphical application such as mc can also help with discipline: doing
something in mc? Then be damn careful, because you're probably root. I
hardly ever use mc unprivileged, I have GUI file managers for non-root
work.
yeah, but I've been using mc for a file manager since my original
install from floppies of redhat 5.0 in the late '90's. I am well aware
of what it CAN do. There is no gui file manager that can touch it for
utility, and it pisses me off that F10 has been stolen by the window
managers to bring up a useless menu, making me find the mouse to quit it
when I'm done. If I'm done with that copy, my normal bootup config of
this machine has at least 2 copies of it running, dedicated to moving
cura's output to the 3d printer, and OpenSCAD's output to cura. 3d
printers are storage hogs and I have a good sized hunk of 2 terabytes of
gcodes that originated as OpenSCAD .stl's or 3mf's. I KNOW what mc can
do, do you?
BTW the only reason that example shown as loading an OpenSCAD file was
because I wanted hard copy on dead tree and the regular OpenSCAD editor
can't print. Geany makes a handy interface to feed cups.
Gene Heskett
