On Wed, December 19, 2012 15:33, Ben Fritz wrote: > 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 >> >> 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 >> >> there anything I can do without running Vim under administrator >> privilegies >> >> 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).
Also, please see this comment in my plugin SudoEdit: https://github.com/chrisbra/SudoEdit.vim/blob/master/doc/SudoEdit.txt#L143 I would be interested in Windows users experiences. regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
