SudoWrite is stuck after typing password about vim-eunuch HOT 9 CLOSED

I just changed it use -A for local Neovim instances, which might work around the problem.

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I have the same problem.

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I think we could probably drop the >/dev/null when silent is given (i.e., when the gui is running), if that helps.

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To answer the actual questions:

1. Depending on the terminal of lack thereof, omitting >/dev/null can allow the entire file to be flooded to stdout, sometimes visible as flickering. Dropping it is not necessarily a deal breaker.
2. The rest of the construct is to use sudoedit permissions rather than tee. See --edit in sudo(8).

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I'm not sure how to start implementing this myself but it crossed my mind that perhaps it could be possible to use su -c instead of sudo. Would that break any other features of the plugin?

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Well su is a completely different security model, requiring the root password rather than the user password. I could maybe see supporting it as a fallback, if people actually want that sort of thing, but I don't see it as a solution to the hanging problem.

On a related note, I did switch things up to use -A (--askpass) in the GUI, which I think is probably a better solution to your problem? Assuming you're experiencing the problem in a GUI Vim.

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Oh that's a whole nother kettle of fish. Neovim essentially forces you to use :terminal for any interactive command, and I doubt that's an option in BufReadCmd. I don't understand why your proposed fix in the original issue would help, but I could easily be missing something.

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The neovim issue is this neovim/neovim#1716 .
But strangely :SudoWrite works in neovim on my Ubuntu but not macOS version.

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