CDIST-TYPE__SENSIBLE_EDITOR(7)

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version 7.0.0 · 8 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 cdist-type__sensible_editor 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to the cdist-type__sensible_editor page — it's a cdist type, manual section 7, and it's literally here to pick your sensible-editor for you. iconic behavior, honestly. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

cdist-type__sensible_editor — bestie's lil helper for selecting the sensible-editor 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So, like — this cdist type lets you select the sensible-editor for a given user. That's it. That's the whole vibe. No cap. ✨

🎀 REQUIRED PARAMETERS 🎀

  • editor — the name or path of the editor you want selected. okay so here's the tea: on systems that are not Debian derivatives, an absolute path is required. no shortcuts, bestie. 🫶 Also, it's totally permissible to omit this parameter if --state is absent. iykyk.

💅 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS 💅

  • state — can be 'present', 'absent', or 'exists'. Defaults to 'present'. Here's the breakdown, bestie:

🌈 the state lore

  • present — the sensible-editor is exactly what's specified in --editor. like, no notes. periodt.
  • absent — no sensible-editor configuration is present at all. it's giving minimalist. 💀
  • exists — the sensible-editor will be set to what's specified in --editor, unless there already is a configuration on the target system. so it only steps in if nobody's home yet. 🦋

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

ok look at these, they're so clean:

__sensible_editor root --editor /bin/ed  # ed(1) is the standard
__sensible_editor noob --editor nano
not the ed(1) being the standard 😭 it's giving ancient but valid, bestie. and nano for noob?? the naming, the commitment, we love to see it 💀💖

🚧 LIMITATIONS 🚧

ngl, this type is dependent on the sensible-editor(1) script, which is part of the sensible-utils package. so if you don't have that, we can't do the thing. 🙈

Therefore, the following operating systems are supported:

  • Debian 8 (jessie) or later
  • Devuan
  • Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) or later
  • RHEL/CentOS 7 or later (EPEL repo required)
  • Fedora 21 or later
Note: on old versions of Ubuntu the sensible-* utils are part of the debianutils package. so like, check before you panic. ✨

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read those too, bestie, they're the whole supporting cast. 🫶

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Dennis Camera <dennis.camera--@--ssrq-sds-fds.ch>

shoutout to Dennis, main character energy fr fr 👑

📜 COPYING 📜

Copyright (C) 2019 Dennis Camera. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. slay, legally speaking. ⚖️💖

ungleich GmbH 2021

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was cdist manual, version 7.0.0, dated Jul 31, 2022 — mwah, go forth and pick your editor 💅✨🎀🦋

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