On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:37:53AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> sudo doesn't preserve ENV by default, so any shell settings (e.g.
> set -o emacs) you might have in your ${ENV} file don't take effect.
>
> for people who like EDITOR=vi but also like "set -o emacs" in the
> shell, this is really annoying; EDITOR/VISUAL are preserved, so the
> (imo horrible) /bin/ksh "feature" of changing line editing mode
> depending on setting of these variables takes priority.
>
> I'm not entirely convinced it's safe to add ENV to env_keep by
> default but the only other workaround I've found (i.e. ln -s
> /usr/bin/{vi,not_emacs} and setting VISUAL=/usr/bin/not_emacs)
> is messy and annoying to do on multiple machines.
>
> anyone have other ideas or comments?
I'm all for killing the ksh autoswitch feature. Whenever I end up on a
system with EDITOR set to vi and ksh as shell I'm lost. If people like to
use a specific mode they should add it to .profile.
--
:wq Claudio
