# Overview

For whatever reason, openSUSE disables the polkit for Kate that will make it so Kate will prompt for a password when you try to edit root owned files.

The only way I could figure out how to get Kate to open these files is using the command `VISUAL="kate -b" sudoedit <file>`.

So I wrote a little helper script (to put be put in .bashrc) that opens kate for any file.

- If the current user has write access to the file/folder, it'll open kate as the current user
- If the current user does not have write access to the file/folder, it'll use sudoedit to open the file.

Sharing in case it helps anyone else.

# How To Use

1. Add the below script to `~/.bashrc`
2. When you want to edit a file with kate, run the command `nedit <path to file>`
3. If the current user does not have edit access to the file, you'll be prompted for `sudo` password