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I am using Gentoo Linux, and I don't use sudo for subexecutor. Rather, I use doas

Unfortunately, all plugins that use a subexecutor to do their work, are hardcoded using sudo.

I propose having an OMZ-wide knob that allows plugins to automatically adjust to whatever subexecutor is being used.

Describe the proposed feature.

There are several alternatives:

1. Define ZSH_SUBEXECUTOR that, by default, is set to sudo. Defining this will allow simple search-and-replace for most plugins to replace sudo with ${ZSH_SUBEXECUTOR}
   For example:

   alias nmap_slow="sudo nmap -sS -v -T1"

   becomes

   alias nmap_slow="${ZSH_SUBEXECUTOR} nmap -sS -v -T1"

2. Define an OMZ-level zstyle to contain the name of the subexecutor being used, defaults to sudo.
   This will need some code in the plugins. So, to use the above example, will become:

   typeset _SUBEX
   zstyle -s ':omz' 'subexecutor' _SUBEX
   alias nmap_slow="${_SUBEX} nmap -sS -v -T1"
   unset _SUBEX

3. Define a global OMZ function that adjusts the call to subexecutor automatically. Let's call it subex.
   So the above example becomes:

   alias nmap_slow="subex nmap -sS -v -T1"

   The function may internally be referring to an env var and/or a zstyle knob to provide manual override.

Describe alternatives you've considered

An alternative is to add the following code for all plugins:

# If in the future a new subexecuter is created, we only need to edit this array
typeset _KNOWN_SUBEXES=( "doas" "sudo" )
typeset _SUBEX
for _i in "${_KNOWN_SUBEXES[@]}"; do
  if command -v "$_i" > /dev/null; then
    _subex="$_i"
     break
   fi
done
if [[ -z $_subex ]]; then
  _subex="sudo"
fi
unset _KNOWN_SUBEXES

However, if we add this code to all plugins that define sudo as part of their sets of aliases, that is highly inefficient since the code will be duplicated over all impacted plugins.

Furthermore this code does not provide a way to temporarily override the subexecutor being used.

Additional context

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Related Issues

This is tangentially related to this discussion: #11947 , specifically this comment which mentions the doas command.

So if this issue gets solved, the solution will provide partial solution to the challenge discussed, specifically for *BSD users that use the doas command.