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layout	title	date	tags	published	author
post	Edit file as another user in Emacs	2016-11-10 08:57:12	development emacs	true	name email Gergely Polonkai gergely@polonkai.eu

I have recently found this article by Bozhidar Batsov on opening the current file as root. I barely use tramp for sudo access, but when I do, I almost never use root as the target user. So I decided to fix it for my needs.

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If the user is not specified, the default is still root. Also, if the current buffer is not visiting a file, I prompt for a filename. As I’m not an ido user, I didn’t bother calling ido-read-file-name; helm overrides read-file-name for me anyway.

Unlike Bozhidar, I barely use this feature, so I didn’t bind this to a key.