Re: [TxMt] mate and file owner

On Nov 2, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

There basically is no way you can currently do what you want -- but since ‘sudo mate’ is (by several users) expected to transfer the super user privileges to TextMate (for just that file), I will look into how this could possibly be pulled off sometime in the future (it would be a nice little feature).

This starts up a second instance of TextMate running as root:

sudo /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/MacOS/TextMate

You could then open/save <my_config_file> from within that TextMate.

I have a feeling though that this is a pretty bad idea with potential to wreak all sorts of havoc.

j.