[TxMt] mate and file owner

[Rob McBroom]

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