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bbedit is smarter than that
Authored by: bhines on Oct 07, '02 04:25:08PM

BBEdit (full version) authenticates you when you try to edit a root-owned file. It is really, really nice. Does the lite version not do that?

1. Open a root owned file.
2. Try to edit it.
--> BBEdit asks for your password.

no need to launch as root.



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bbedit is smarter than that
Authored by: hysterion on Oct 08, '02 01:03:54AM

> Does the lite version not do that?

No, it doesn't. That's kind of the whole point ;-)



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