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From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Auto-Prompt for Password and Raise Privilegies when needed
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:17:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eihrvjj4.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b0553e6b-7750-4669-b36d-15655fb58193@o1g2000vbe.googlegroups.com

quodlibetor <quodlibetor@gmail.com> writes:

>> Sounds trivial. Though this may not scale well with other hooks.
>>
>> (defun find-file-maybe-change-me ()
>>   (when (not (file-writable-p buffer-file-name))
>>     (find-alternate-file
>>      (format "/sudo::%s" buffer-file-name))))
>>
>> (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'find-file-maybe-change-me)
>
> I think what Per was looking for was more something along the lines of
>
> (defun edit-read-only-file-maybe ()
>   (when (y-or-n-p "file is read-only, raise privileges to edit? ")
>     (find-alternate-file
>      (format "/sudo::%s" buffer-file-name))))
>
> (add-hook 'first-edit-read-only-file-hook 'edit-read-only-file-maybe)
>
> with the main problem being that `first-edit-read-only-file-hook'
> doesn't exist, and there don't seem to be any analogs. Or at least I
> can't find them.

What about view-mode-hook ?

-ap


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-04 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-03 16:50 Auto-Prompt for Password and Raise Privilegies when needed Nordlöw
2010-05-03 21:10 ` Andreas Politz
2010-05-04 14:00   ` quodlibetor
2010-05-04 14:17     ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2010-05-04 20:11       ` Andreas Politz
2010-05-04 14:56     ` Nordlöw
2010-05-05  4:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-05 20:25       ` Nordlöw

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