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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me personally the advantage is that since the editor is opened by your user, it has all of the same config that I'm used to (such as my souped up Neovim config).

Whereas if you sudo nvim /path/to/file then the editor is opened as root and you don't have the same configuration.

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