Question

Is there a way to become root on the fly? Relaunch vifm with %d and %D?

Answer 1

You can do something like you've suggested:

:!su -c 'vifm %d %D' -

or

:!sudo vifm %d %D

Possibly map it something (e.g. ,R):

" become root
nnoremap ,R {one of two commands from above}<cr>

Comments

missed ! sign. thanks a lot