Re: sudo and privoxy

[Kam Leo <kam leo gmail com>]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Clint Dilks <clintd scms waikato ac nz> wrote:
>>
>>
>>        Learning vi is one of the things that's been daunting me, lo!,
>> these dozen years or more ....
>>
>>
>
> Hi :)
>
> If you don't want to use vi with visudo all you need to do is set the EDITOR
> environment variable to whatever editor you prefer and this will be called
> instead of vi.
>
> Have a nice day :)
>

If I recall correctly, the benefit of using visudo is that the results
are syntax checked when the file is saved. Does enabling other editors
provide the same check?