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Vim Sudo Write Trick (2005) vim susam.in
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kevincox 5 months ago | link

I just use https://github.com/tpope/vim-eunuch which includes a :SudoWrite in its list of goodies.

Everything in the plugin is pretty easy to live without but in my mind the simple plugin to have everything on-hand is worth it.
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  alerque 5 months ago | link
  Same here since 2014, with the addition of this shortcut in my rc file:
  
  cmap w!! SudoWrite
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  JamieTanna 5 months ago | link
  
  Nice! I’ve recently added https://github.com/lambdalisue/suda.vim for Neovim, but I may look at this instead, especially as it adds some other things
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kjensenxz 5 months ago | link

Here’s part of my .vimrc:

" :W sudo-saves a file

command W w !sudo tee % > /dev/null
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gir edited 5 months ago | link
This is great, really wish I thought of this earlier! Here’s a oneliner I just put into my vimrc:
```
command Suwrite exec 'silent write !sudo tee "%" >/dev/null' | edit!
```