wine users - Oct 2009 - Editing root files with text editor

I have Wine installed and running fine in Ubuntu 9.04. I also have notepad++ and
crimson editor running under wine perfectly.

Question is, how do I edit root owned files? I cant run these programs as
"root" (also, doing that seems to be HEAVILY discouraged)

Please help...

> I have Wine installed and running fine in Ubuntu 9.04. I also have
notepad++ and crimson editor running under wine perfectly.
> 
> Question is, how do I edit root owned files? I cant run these programs as
"root" (also, doing that seems to be HEAVILY discouraged)
> 
> Please help...
> 
Hi!
 If you REALLY want to use your windows-based editors to edit Linux root owned
files, the only possibility is to use the chown/chmod commands as root (or use
some form of permission control GUI) and set the permissions for these files to
be able to read/write them as a regular user.

 However, if you are using Linux regularly, I strongly encourage you to learn
any of the Linux text editors and use it instead of the windows ones.
  
 With regards, Pavel

> Windows text editors are likely to break unix line endings though... 
Decent text editors like Notepad++ and Notepad2 usually take the file's
original line encodings in account when editing the files.