[OS X Emacs] Opening and saving files as root

Roland Whitehead rolandw at mac.com
Mon Nov 19 04:36:37 EST 2007


Using the built in emacs from terminal, it is easy to open a file as  
root

	sudo emacs path/to/myfile.txt

and from then on that instance of emacs runs as root. I can do  
similar with a remote volume using tramp from Aquamacs

	/ssh:root at mymachine.mydomain.com:/path/to/myfile.txt

but what I can't work out how to do is do the same using Aquamacs and  
my local machine save using the shell to open Aquamacs as root in the  
first place. I've found sudo.el but that just seems to cope with  
saving rather than opening.

Suggestions appreciated!


Roland




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