Hulk
Reputation: 34170
Switching to superuser mode in vim session
After opening a file created by root in vim, how to change the current user to superuser mode without quitting or before saving?
Upvotes: 15
Views: 5967
Answers (1)
Ressu
Reputation: 693
This should do the trick.
:w !sudo tee %
More tricks like that here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Su-write
Upvotes: 36
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