Opening Files with Admin Privleges

Hello all:
How do you open a file with admin privileges once you are in the program? Is it possible to run a program with admin privileges? The reason I ask is that I installed the GUI version of vim and need to be able to open some files which will be read-only unless I supply an administrator password.
John

You can open any application capable of running in Mac OS X natively as root by entering:
sudo /path/to/application/Contents/MacOS/application
in the Terminal, which is in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder. This works on a per-run basis, and the command will need to be entered each time you want to launch the application. Other methods exist which only require the password to be entered once, and work on a per-application basis.
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