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

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

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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.

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??? I used this in neovim twice today

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

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i use micro

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It’s a simple trick in Vim:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/7078429

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

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

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(n)vim + suda.vim.

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

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

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