linuxmint / xed

X-Apps [Text] Editor (Cross-DE, backward-compatible, GTK3, traditional UI)
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Allow promotion of open file to root privileges #34

Open momist opened 8 years ago

momist commented 8 years ago

I'm sure that I've seen this in other text editors. Once you have opened a file from somewhere as a user, it's a bit of a pain to go back and find it as superuser to edit a root-owned file. Just a switch in a drop down somewhere (tools?) to raise the privileges (which of course then asks for root password) is needed. May not be trivial of course . . .

mcarans commented 8 years ago

I second this request