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Is there an editor that can request root privileges without restarting it? That would be quite useful.
In vim, in normal mode you can do:
:w !sudo tee %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.
??? I used this in neovim twice today
:w !sudo tee %then reload when it asks.i use micro
It's a simple trick in Vim:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/7078429
For the lazy:
:w !sudo tee > /dev/null %Sure, you can do this in emacs: https://fuco1.github.io/2017-04-20-Save-write-protected-files-with-sudo-automatically.html
micro ftw, no need to even memorize a command, it'll just ask if you want to use sudo
katedoes this in KDE, but it's not cli.(n)vim + suda.vim.
Yeah, in emacs you use
trampto open the file with/sudo::