cdist-type__sensible_editor(7)

Overview

This cdist type allows you to select the sensible-editor for a given user.

Required parameters

editor: Name or path of the editor to be selected. On systems other than Debian derivatives an absolute path is required.

It is permissible to omit this parameter if --state is absent.

Optional parameters

state

'present', 'absent', or 'exists'. Defaults to 'present', where:

present: the sensible-editor is exactly what is specified in --editor.

absent: no sensible-editor configuration is present.

exists: the sensible-editor will be set to what is specified in --editor, unless there already is a configuration on the target system.

Examples

__sensible_editor root --editor /bin/ed  # ed(1) is the standard
__sensible_editor noob --editor nano

Limitations

This type depends upon the sensible-editor(1) script which is part of the sensible-utils package.

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.

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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.

History

Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
Debian 12 (Bookworm)
Debian 11 (Bullseye)