Re: me and me as root must wastefully use separate emacses?

[Gaute B Strokkenes]

On 23 Feb 2002, jidanni@deadspam.com wrote:
> So I guess there is no way for two users [me and me as root] to use
> one emacs, and each must start separate emacses [wasting some memory
> I suppose].  I had emacsclient dreams, but when it comes to writing
> the file, you aren't root [or are not plain me].
> 
> OK, start a whole new emacs just to edit one little file as root.

The TRAMP package can be used to edit files owned by another user.  It
is a sort of generalised Ange-FTP, and offers (for instance) the `sum'
access method for this purpose.  See

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/tramp/

> Hmm, do I need to make a shell script wrapper?
> cp $file /tmp
> chown me /tmp/$file
> emacsclient /tmp/$file
> chown root /tmp/$file
> cp /tmp/$file $file
> 
> sheesh, hope nothing goes wrong.

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