Notes from Nemo » Ubuntu http://www.jamiesutherland.com Jamiesutherland.com Sun, 30 May 2010 21:39:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Using vi and forgetting the bastarding sudo command. http://www.jamiesutherland.com/2009/05/19/ubuntu-vi-and-forgetting-the-bastarding-sudo-command/ http://www.jamiesutherland.com/2009/05/19/ubuntu-vi-and-forgetting-the-bastarding-sudo-command/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 14:16:27 +0000 jsutherland http://www.jamiesutherland.com/?p=39 OK, so how many of you have been messing about with a system file using vi and you’ve edited about 10 lines. You go to save the file and it complains that it’s Read-Only!! Gah, you then do your thing to correct it and slap yourself for making THAT mistake AGAIN.

Anyway, rant over. Fix it by doing this!

vi ~/.vimrc

Insert this

command! -bar -nargs=0 Sw :w !sudo tee % >/dev/null

Now when you go to save and it complains just type :Sw and it will save it out as root and then ask you to reload (If someone know how to do this part automatically it would be appreciated :D )

Problem solved!

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