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Please can someone tell me how I can edit a text file as Root?
Thank you

open a terminal and su to root,
then

kwrite /path/to/file

or

user the root terminal in mcc and kwrite again

calvert wrote:open a terminal and su to root,
then
kwrite /path/to/file

That will not work if you forget to add a dash, like

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su -

Many thanks - sorted

If you want by right-click yhe file in dolphin (if you use KDE) look in MCC/software for kde-rootactions-servicemenu