diff -up beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu.gedit-plugin.more-fixes beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu.gedit-plugin
--- beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu.gedit-plugin.more-fixes	2013-06-25 12:06:35.595816030 -0400
+++ beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu.gedit-plugin	2013-06-25 12:07:06.742816497 -0400
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [Plugin]
-Loader=python
+Loader=python3
 Module=beesu
-IAge=2
+IAge=3
 Name=Open as root
 Description=Reopen a document as root
 Authors=Bee at the HONEY BEE NET - http://honeybeenet.altervista.org
diff -up beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu/__init__.py.more-fixes beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu/__init__.py
--- beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu/__init__.py.more-fixes	2013-06-25 12:09:56.847819050 -0400
+++ beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu/__init__.py	2013-06-25 12:10:01.072819113 -0400
@@ -1 +1 @@
-from beesu import beesuPlugin
+from .beesu import beesuPlugin
diff -up beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu.py.more-fixes beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu.py
--- beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu.py.more-fixes	2013-06-25 12:08:53.705818102 -0400
+++ beesu-2.7/gedit-beesu-plugin-0.4/beesu.py	2013-06-25 12:08:57.802818164 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # 2010 - Copyright by Bee <http://www.honeybeenet.altervista.org>.
 # 2012 - Rewritten to work with modern Gedit by Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org>
+# 2013 - Rewritten slightly for compatibility with Gedit 3.8 by D. Charles Pyle <dcharlespyle@msn.com>.
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
@@ -117,11 +118,11 @@ class beesuPlugin(GObject.Object, Gedit.
         #shell_args = [SED_BEESU_COMMAND_LINE_SU,'/usr/libexec/gedit-beesu-plugin','gedit-beesu-plugin','gedit','gedit',lockfile]
         if filename != None and filename != '':
             # shell_args = ['beesu', '-l', '-c', '\"/usr/bin/gedit %s\"' % filename]
-            shell_args = ['beesu', '-l', '-c', '/usr/libexec/gedit-beesu-plugin','gedit-beesu-plugin','gedit','gedit',lockfile, filename]
+            shell_args = ['beesu', '-l', '-c', '/usr/libexec/gedit-beesu-plugin','gedit-beesu-plugin','/usr/bin/gedit','gedit', lockfile, '\"%s\"' %filename]
             # shell_args = ['/usr/libexec/gedit-beesu-plugin','gedit-beesu-plugin','gedit','gedit', lockfile, filename]
         else:
            return False
-        print shell_args
+        print(str(shell_args))
         try:
             subprocess.Popen(shell_args, stderr=open(os.devnull)).wait()
         except:
@@ -132,7 +133,11 @@ class beesuPlugin(GObject.Object, Gedit.
             self.error_message(_(myerror))
             return False
 
-        print 'Hey, it says the Popen succeeded.'
+        print('Hey, it says the Popen succeeded.')
+        # Added for additional debugging information.
+        #
+        print("The file worked on by beesu was: " + filename)
+        print("The shell_args passed to execvp() were: " + str(shell_args))
 
         if os.path.isfile(lockfile):
             os.remove(lockfile)