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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Is there an editor that can request root privileges without restarting it? That would be quite useful.

    [–] h3rm17 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    In vim, in normal mode you can do: :w !sudo tee %

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Apparently that doesn't work in NeoVim, so recently I installed the suda plugin.

    Personally, I just doas nvim and then the file name that needs root access, but it's a handy plugin in case I forget.

    [–] dream_weasel 1 points 7 months ago

    ??? I used this in neovim twice today

    :w !sudo tee % then reload when it asks.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

    It's a simple trick in Vim:

    https://stackoverflow.com/a/7078429

    For the lazy: :w !sudo tee > /dev/null %

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    micro ftw, no need to even memorize a command, it'll just ask if you want to use sudo

    [–] YodaDaCoda 4 points 7 months ago

    kate does this in KDE, but it's not cli.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Yeah, in emacs you use tramp to open the file with /sudo::