Open with Emacs in same window, and open as root: emacsclients scripts and .desktop files

Open with Emacs in same window

/usr/local/bin/myemacs:

#!/bin/bash

# how many emacs?
NUM_EMACS=$(emacsclient -e "(length (frame-list))" -a "")

if [ $NUM_EMACS -le 1 ]; then
	emacsclient -c -e "(progn (select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)) (find-file \"$@\"))"
else
	emacsclient -e "(progn

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