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my_funcs.el
;; automatically open a file as sudo unless we have permission to write it
;; already, after all this is my machine and I can do what I want!
(defadvice ido-find-file (after find-file-sudo activate)
"Find file as root if necessary."
(unless (and buffer-file-name
(file-writable-p buffer-file-name))
(find-alternate-file (concat "/sudo:root@localhost:" buffer-file-name))))
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