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layout: post
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title: "Edit file as another user in Emacs"
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date: 2016-11-10 08:57:12
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tags: [development, emacs]
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published: true
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author:
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name: Gergely Polonkai
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email: gergely@polonkai.eu
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---
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I have recently found
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[this article](http://emacsredux.com/blog/2013/04/21/edit-files-as-root/) by
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Bozhidar Batsov on opening the current file as root. I barely use
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[tramp](https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/) for sudo access, but when I do,
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I almost never use root as the target user. So I decided to fix it for my
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needs.
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{% gist 192c83aa0556d5cdaf4018f57b75a84b %}
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If the user is not specified, the default is still root. Also, if the
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current buffer is not visiting a file, I prompt for a filename. As I’m not
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an `ido` user, I didn’t bother calling
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`ido-read-file-name`; [`helm`](https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/wiki)
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overrides `read-file-name` for me anyway.
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Unlike Bozhidar, I barely use this feature, so I didn’t bind this to a key.
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