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Using visudo
Authored by: pmccann on Jan 03, '02 11:34:05AM

Oh the pain, the pain of it all....

(Having typed in three longish paragraphs of comments about using vi, about how vi *is* the only allowed editor for visudo on macosx (due to the --with-env-editor not being set at compile time), and various other dribs and drabs about how visudo does a very nice consistency check on the way out of the editor I must have had the "escape" key on the brain. And I hit it: in IE5 that zeroes out the text area into which you're currently typing. No reversal of this action that I could find. (Anyone?))

Ouch. Just like ":q!". Back to scratch. So this miserable little bleating is taking the place of "the one that got away". Damn it was a *great* message:-) And big? Oh boy... you should've seen it....

Cheers,
Paul (and jealous jeers to those attending MWSF in a few days!)

ps One day, not too far down the track, I'm going to learn to first type a comment in bbedit, and then use the technological marvel known as "cut and paste" to poke the text into the browser. Make it a new year's resolution!



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