[emacs-berlin] Automatic sudo

[Rasmus]

Hi,

Arne Brasseur <arne.brasseur at gmail.com> writes:

>   "Ask to re-open a file with sudo if it's read-only and you try to edit it.

There could be good reasons for having read-only files, say data is
archived.  Thus, shouldn't you rather explicitly check whether either the
owner is not you or the owner is root?  Potentially also the group
membership.  [No idea how these concepts work in Emacs on windows].

       (nth 2 (file-attributes "/etc/profile" 'string)) => root

>  (find-file (concat "/sudo:root at localhost:" path))

You could use (concat "/sudo::" path), but maybe it will act differently
on remotes.

Rasmus

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