Hacker News Reader

Comment by 1_player | Hacker News Reader

The most useful shortcut I have in my .vimrc is the ability to "sudo save":

    command W :execute ':silent w !sudo tee % > /dev/null' | :edit!

No more exiting vim to start it again with sudo.

That is one of the features I get from the https://github.com/tpope/vim-eunuch plugin (SudoWrite).

Huh. Well I kinda consider that `sudo` annoyance a feature. It tells me to think twice before potentially messing up badly. :-)

Likewise, but I have the alias added so that when I discover I should have edited under sudo, I don't have to lose my work.

When I use :W is because I've been editing some system configuration files.. I know what I'm doing.

And messing up is half the fun of systems administration :)