Re: [vile] sudo/visudo

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 05:43:58PM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 08:52:56PM +0100, Fabien COUTANT wrote:
> > Le Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:48:57 -0500, Wayne Cuddy a écrit:
> > [...]
> > > It now makes the assumption that all editors accept '--' as the option
> > > list terminator. Really quite annoying.
> > 
> > Hi Wayne
> > 
> > IIRC it's a common usage with POSIX utilities, and supported by getopt(3)
> > and getopt(1).
> > 
> > In that precise case it allows passing strange file names such as those
> > starting with '-' or '--' without prefixing them with <somepath>/ .
> > 
> > Maybe it's the occasion to add it to vile rather than bugging sudo ?
> > (though they may deserve it :-))
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cordialement,
> > Fabien COUTANT.
> 
> Hi Fabian,
> 
> Understood, I should have mentioned that I'm familiar with it's use in
> other utilities and I'm not particularly bothered by it.
> 
> I guess my main gripe with sudo is that it was added but I see no
> mention of it in the change log nor a way to disable it in case the called
> editor does not provide handling for it. Surely vile is not the only
> editor that can't handle it at the moment.
> 
> That being said... I vote for adding it to vile as well if Tom agrees.

sure (I noticed this recently, but hadn't realized it was a recent change
to visudo).

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