Hey, how about an "xedit" command similar to visudo?

R.L. Horn lists at eastcheap.org
Sat Nov 4 12:33:59 PST 2006


On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Brendan wrote:

> Hey, how about an "xedit" command similar to visudo?

Sorry, xedit's already taken.  However...

> I propose an xedit command to use the editor from the sysvariable EDITOR 
> to auto-open the current xorg file. "how do i fix this? i changed my 
> driver from nv to nvidia in the GUI but now it boots me to a console and 
> i don't know how to use it! HELP!"

See attached.

To be honest, I didn't take the idea all that seriously but, after writing 
the script, I realized that it was actually kind of handy.
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