Not working (no keystrokes are registered) when editing privileged file, works fine with sudo

[alex-jitbit]

On some of our servers, when trying to edit a privileged file (like /etc/hosts or any other "sudo-file") the editor is not registering keystrokes. Just nothing happens in the editor window

Ctrl+e, Ctrl+g and other commands work fine.

When restarted under sudo sudo micro /etc/hosts all works fine.

This happens on Ubuntu 22.04.

[niten94]

I think files where privileges are needed when saving were not able to be edited because you were using 2.0.9. There was a bug where such files were opened as read-only but it was fixed at 0b0c99f in 2.0.10. The version of micro in Ubuntu 22.04 is 2.0.9 but other versions can be downloaded in GitHub and used.

[alex-jitbit]

Yes, updating to the latest version fixed this, I was using an outdated version from Ubuntu repo.