spew and edit_* resets permissions and ownership of file

[Grinnz]

After running edit or edit_lines on a file, its permissions and ownership are reset to the current user+umask. Presumably this is because it creates a new file before replacing the old. It would probably be more desired to maintain the ownership and permissions of the existing file if possible.

[xdg]

Good point and this will be true for spew as well.