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Gain sudo privileges in Emacs without launch it as sudo
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| ;; Makes possible to sudo-edit files | |
| ;; From Damien Cassou | |
| ;; https://github.com/renard/dired-toggle-sudo/issues/1 | |
| (defun sudo () | |
| (interactive) | |
| (let ((fname (or buffer-file-name | |
| dired-directory))) | |
| (when fname | |
| (if (string-match "^/sudo:root@localhost:" fname) | |
| (setq fname (replace-regexp-in-string | |
| "^/sudo:root@localhost:" "" | |
| fname)) | |
| (setq fname (concat "/sudo:root@localhost:" fname))) | |
| (find-alternate-file fname)))) |
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To use from
dired-mode, typeM-x sudo