Re: Nano Feature Request?

Rock on! Thank you very much for those suggestions, I will certainly give
them a try :)  -Damien

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Adam Wysocki via ArcaBit
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Damien Joldersma wrote:
>
> > I would like to have nano, my favorite editor :), to help me handle my
> > permission problems.
>
> Personally I would like this feature too. In the meantime you can:
>
> 1. Save file in /tmp and then move it to the proper destination (that's
> what I do)
> 2. Use Ctrl-Z (or screen) and temporarily chmod/chown
> 3. Write a wrapper that checks the permission and runs nano with -v option
> when the file is not writable
>
> Third option can be accomplished by using access() or even simple as:
>
> OPTS=
> echo -n >> "$@" || OPTS="-v"
> nano $OPTS "$@"
>
> Regards.
>
> --
> Software Research and Development Department, ArcaBit sp. z o.o.
> Ul. Fortuny 9, 01-339 Warszawa, Poland
>



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Damien Joldersma
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