Re: emacs within ansi-term ( is it possible ?)

[Michael Slass]

Mahesh Padmanabhan <news@nospam.eml.cc> writes:

>Problem:
>
>I am trying to use emacs exclusively for all shell related
>activities. For this, eshell works quite well. But, when I want to log
>in as root from eshell to modify something as root, eshell kind of
>washes its hands off. This is apparently a known problem and people
>suggested using the visual-command variable in eshell so that whenever
>I type in "su", it hands off control to ansi-term.
>
>That works fine except when I have to edit something as root. If I
>bring up emacs within ansi-term, all keystrokes (especially ^X ) seem
>to be grabbed by the "enclosing" emacs. Is it possible to run emacs
>within ansi-term which is within emacs or should I use jed or some
>other editor within ansi-term (I would prefer not to do that) ?
>
>TIA,

I don't know about the ansi-term problem, but you can use tramp.el to
edit files which the UID of the emacs process would not ordinarily
have privileges to do.

-- 
Mike Slass