On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 03:00, Jasper Frumau <[email protected]> wrote:

> Never mind. sudo cat config and sudo gedit config did work. Somehow
> TextMate showed me a blank file, even when I was using sudo mate config .
> Not sure yet why. But I can edit the file using gedit


At a guess, "mate" just sends AppleEvents to the real editor instance; you
would have to run that as root.  But I'd not be surprised to find that
TextMate has inside itself some kind of "edit file as root" mechanism.

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brandon s allbery                                      [email protected]
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