On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 3:52:01 AM UTC-6, Boris Danilov wrote:
> Hello! Vim is great editor, but I have some trouble when working under normal
> 
> user account and editing files in places with restricted access (like
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> Program Files and etc.). Is there a way to make Vim elevate access rights
> 
> when saving a file? I want Vim to display me the UAC dialogue where I must
> 
> confirm the operation instead of giving me a message that write failed?  Is
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> there anything I can do without running Vim under administrator privilegies
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> or disabling UAC?
> 
> 
> 
> 

I'm pretty sure you're stuck launching Vim with admin privileges.

You might be able to hack something together with one or more of these search 
results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+sudo+command

But doing that you'd need to bypass Vim's normal write mechanisms, probably 
with a BufWriteCmd autocmd. I think you're better off just launching Vim with 
admin rights, as people basically do on Linux when editing system files (using 
"sudo" to give root access).

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