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by na85 3970 days ago
>There isn't a built-in systemd editor; that's how disingenuous this piece is. Running "systemctl edit <unit-name>" invokes $EDITOR, whatever that is configured to be. Totally normal Unix behavior here.

Well, okay, but the suckless people are about simplicity. Adding systemctl edit seems like a completely unnecessary alias. Another feature for the sake of having another feature.

Why assume the user is too stupid or lazy to manually invoke vim and then systemctl daemon-reload?

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This is no different from crontab -e, visudo and other programs that invoke $EDITOR..