Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

[Stefan Monnier]

r> The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot
r> navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly.
r> But, worst of all, some key combinations do not work well.
> But that's the way it must be here on Debian, if you are root.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633652
> My question is how do all those high powered Debian Developers cope?
> Don't tell me they don't use emacs.
> Or not as root.
> Not even
> when
> administering their system?

There aren't too many things I ever need to do as root, and for those
`zile' works great.  I would never run Emacs as root, it would be one
giant security hole.


        Stefan