Re: Editing a file as root

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr ( Sébastien Kirche) (SK) wrote:

SK> On my system (Mac OSX 10.2.8), emacs fails or freezes after entering the 
SK> superuser password.
SK> "top" shows that no cpu is used by emacs, and i can get the control back 
SK> with C-g

I use the following entry in tramp-default-method-alist:

 ("\\`nono\\'" ".*" "sudo")

(nono is the name of my computer), and then I enter /nono:/filename
This works.
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