Add a note about how to use edit-in-kitty with sudo to edit root files

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Kovid Goyal
2024-03-22 11:56:44 +05:30
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@@ -313,6 +313,10 @@ window, etc. Not all arguments are supported, see the discussion in the
In order to avoid remote code execution, kitty will only execute the configured
editor and pass the file path to edit to it.
.. note:: To edit files using sudo the best method is to set the
:code:`SUDO_EDITOR` environment variable to ``kitten edit-in-kitty`` and
then edit the file using the ``sudoedit`` or ``sudo -e`` commands.
.. _run_shell: