Re: Mac terminal.app: starting emacs, possibly as sudo

[Michael Albinus]

Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> Dear Perry, Dear Peter,

Hi,

> Well, maybe I should rethink the whole process: When do I want to open
> emacs as root? From time to time, I open a file and modify it. When I
> try to save it, I get the read-only warning. This means I would like
> to be su to modify this file. It's probably best to just open it with
> C-x C-f /sudo::path-to-file... But by closing and reopening all my
> modifications to the file are lost. How can one avoid this?

If you edit file /a/b/c and you cannot save it because it is owned by
root, you could save it by "C-x C-w /sudo::/a/b/c".

> Cheers,
>
> Marius

Best regards, Michael.