Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

Editing any file inside a package

Finally, we have rosed, which opens a terminal editor, such as nano, so that you can modify any file in the package:

$ rosed mygopigo distance-sensor.py

For rosed to work properly, you have to specify an editor:

export EDITOR=nano

To make it part of your configuration, add the preceding line to the end of your .bashrc file:

echo 'export EDITOR=nano' >> ~/.bashrc

rosed is equivalent to launching the Linux terminal editor, which is nano. It will allow you to edit any file inside a ROS package by simply telling it the package name, no matter which subfolder the file is actually in.

This command is a convenient way to modify a file when you are connected remotely to the robot and you only have a terminal to ...