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When you realized you forgot sudo (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by Waffelson to c/linuxmemes
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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (10 children)

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

[โ€“] Botzo 5 points 6 months ago

It's a simple trick in Vim:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/7078429

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

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