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by WorldMaker 864 days ago
runas doesn't support "same terminal window", it always has launched a new window.

It's possible this sudo could have been implement as yet more clunky flags to runas, but it seems like making it a separate tool has benefits: off by default, whereas runas is a nearly always-on required built-in; more importantly a nicer less clunky syntax.