mattcen 1384770636 learn sudoedit is a wrapper around sudo that allows editing of files not owned by you, which does proper file locking etc. You should use it for editing files in /etc. mattcen 1384770851 forget mattcen 1384770857 learn sudoedit is a wrapper around sudo that allows editing of files not owned by you, which does proper file locking etc. You should use it for editing files in /etc. Equivalent to sudo -e.