Re: [TxMt] mate and file owner

On Nov 3, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Une Bévue wrote:

something i didn't understood, suppose i write a wrapper to mate "sudo_mate" even launching TextMate like that :

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

In my experience, any time I need to edit a file I don't have access to, TextMate will realize that and authenticate me so I can save the file. This probably requires you to be in the admin group, but then so does sudo (by default), right? The only possible drawback is that new files might not get root as the owner. But maybe in that case you could just do:

sudo touch foo.txt mate foo.txt

Rob