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Re: starting emacs remote doesn't load .emacs


From: Joel J. Adamson
Subject: Re: starting emacs remote doesn't load .emacs
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:19:56 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux)

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

> Stefan Horomnea <stefan@softexperience.ro> writes:

> 3. If you are running emacs 22, you iwll have tramp installed. tramp will
>    allow you to easily edit files owned by root or execute commands as
>    root. Use this rather than running emacs as root. 

To open a file, use /su::<filename>

To use dired in root mode /su::/directory

Then get out of root mode as soon as possible (we're telling you this
because we've made mistakes ourselves --- well, at least I have).

Joel

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Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
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