cheat-fork-echo/cheat
Chris Lane e391cf2f01 Issue #172
Previously, `cheat` would exit if run by `root`. The rationale was:

If `cheat` was run by an unprivileged user (`chris`, for example), the
`$DEFAULT_CHEAT_DIR` would default to `/home/chris/.cheat`. If cheat was
run via `sudo`, however, the `$DEFAULT_CHEAT_DIR` would suddenly be
`/root/.cheat`.

Presuming that those individual user cheat dirs actually contained cheat
sheets, this could cause confusion, because cheat sheets accessible to
one user (`chris`) would not be accessible to the other (`root`). Thus,
cheatsheets would appear and disappear, depending on which user was
running `cheat`. (This would only be an issue, of course, for cheat
sheets that existed within the respective users' cheat dirs. System-wide
cheat sheets would be unaffected.)

`cheat` was thus programmed to gracefully fail when run as `root` to
prevent that possible confusion.

However, I'm backing away from that reasoning, because:

1. It's causing a headache for real users who'd like to run `cheat` as
root

2. Other venerable programs (`vim`, etc.) suffer from the same problem,
but nobody seems to mind enough to do anything about it. Thus, I suppose
the laissez-faire approach is essentially the sanctioned "solution" to
this problem.

3. Users sufficently troubled by this confusion may rememdy the problem
manually by setting environment variables (`$DEFAULT_CHEAT_DIR`, etc.)

Thus, `cheat` no longer complains if run by `root`.

Version-bumped to 2.1.0.
2014-08-06 21:56:19 -04:00
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autocompletion Resolves #160 2014-05-28 20:49:56 -04:00
cheatsheets Merge pull request #174 from juliushaertl/master 2014-08-06 21:23:18 -04:00
test Performed a large refactoring 2014-04-26 23:39:19 -04:00
__init__.py simple py3 import change 2014-05-29 09:56:54 +10:00
sheet.py Performed a large refactoring 2014-04-26 23:39:19 -04:00
sheets.py Issue #172 2014-08-06 21:56:19 -04:00
utils.py Trivial 2014-05-25 23:05:26 -04:00