Can I sudoedit a file in a writable directory when using vimdiff? When I want to `vimdiff` root files, I use the following alias, as per this suggestion. alias sudovimdiff='SUDO_EDITOR=vimdiff sudoedit' I can then use the following command. $ sudovimdiff /root/a /root/b However, if one of the files is writable by my user, the command fails. $ sudovimdiff /root/a /tmp/b sudoedit: /tmp/b: editing files in a writable directory is not permitted Is there a way to vimdiff one root and one non-root file, using my user's environment settings (i.e. `sudoedit`)?

May be useful related to that sudoedit error message:

> sudoedit: ... editing files in a writable directory is not permitted

Please try a modification to sudoers file using `sudo visudo`, add a line:


Defaults !sudoedit_checkdir


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