From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: quodlibetor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Auto-Prompt for Password and Raise Privilegies when needed Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 07:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <146fc610-6a5e-4607-b61d-248c926f1d67@b7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> <87bpcwsncr.fsf@fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273017461 12355 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 23:57:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 23:57:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 01:57:40 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Rze-00059V-Vm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 01:57:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Rze-0004GX-Fe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:57:38 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o1g2000vbe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.114.55.38 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1272981628 23933 127.0.0.1 (4 May 2010 14:00:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:00:28 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o1g2000vbe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.114.55.38; posting-account=-bGvIQoAAABPJI7xhxUa9jLKxm0Tx_GX User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100429 Windows/6.1 (Vista) Firefox/3.7a4pre,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177904 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73311 Archived-At: > 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.