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31.0.50; [wishlist] Add global key binding for tramp-revert-buffer-with-sudo

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From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
To: 76974 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: dancol <at> dancol.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name
Subject: bug#76974: 31.0.50; [wishlist] Add global key binding for tramp-revert-buffer-with-sudo
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:21:39 +0300

On 12/03/2025 13:16 +0100, Michael Albinus via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:

> Yes, I did. Neither tramp-revert-buffer-with-sudo nor
> tramp-revert-buffer-obtain-root are a perfect name. We don't know for
> sure, that the method will be "sudo", nor that the user will be
> "root". On my QNAP NAS, the root user is called "admin".
>
> And using a Tramp specific name for a global bound command doesn't seem
> to be proper as well.
>
> I was thinking to introduce a new command
> 'revert-buffer-<something-better-than-sudo-or-root>', which will be an
> alias of tramp-revert-buffer-with-sudo. But I'm bad with proper names.

Maybe revert-buffer-as-superuser?

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