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Re: SU commands from Emacs
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Tim X |
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Re: SU commands from Emacs |
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Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:28:21 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
> Hi Tim,
>
> normally I'm also using commands which require root privileges from
> the shell buffer. But I'm forcing myself to use more and more Emacs
> inbuilt functionality. In this line of reasoning using find-grep on
> /etc was actually inattentiveness on my side. Reading the su command
> thread I was wondering if Emacs could even do privileged operations on
> directories. And low and behold it can! Emacs never ceases to amaze.
>
> Michael Albinus and Peter Dyballa, as you probably already have read,
> explained that the new tramp version in CVS is able to do this via a
> dired buffer and the sudo prefix as you hinted at. Even though it
> might turn out to be a bit dangerous for inattentive users ;-).
>
> The idea of you with multiple Emacs processes seems not so far fetched
> in general. I read that some users are doing this quite comfortably.
> But as I'm only occasionally dabble with computers it's clearly not
> necessary. But I'll check the tramp method when I'm in the mood to
> download the CVS version.
>
> Also thank you for the hints with the lisp shells, good to know that
> they exist. Why do you mention Scheme as well, how it is related to
> Emacs and Elisp?
>
I mention the scheme shells only because scheme is another lisp
dialect. anyone who is familiar with emacs lisp or common lisp probably
won't have too much difficulty learning a scheme based shell.
Tim
--
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
- Re: SU commands from Emacs, (continued)
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- Re: SU commands from Emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/08/24
- Re: SU commands from Emacs, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/08/25
- Re: SU commands from Emacs, Michael Albinus, 2007/08/26
- Re: SU commands from Emacs, Peter Dyballa, 2007/08/24
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- Re: SU commands from Emacs, Tim X, 2007/08/24
- Re: SU commands from Emacs, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/08/25
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- Re: SU commands from Emacs, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/08/25