RE: Emacs running as root with different colors than the standard one.

[Doug Lewan]

There could be something in site-lisp on your OS that makes root different. 
(Often /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp or /usr/share/emacs/VERS.ION/site-lisp, but 
not always.)

FWIW I use different colors for different users on different machines all the 
time. It makes distributed development /much/ easier. 

And for dangerous users like root I use unpleasant colors that really get my 
attention. It makes it much easier to not do stoopid things.

,Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On
> Behalf Of Alexandre Schenberg
> Sent: Thursday, 2012 July 12 20:19
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Emacs running as root with different colors than the standard
> one.
> 
> As the title says, when I executes emacs as root, it uses colors
> different when compared with it running with the privileges of a
> regular user.
> So I would like to know where these colors settings might be stored,
> so that I can copy then to use as a regular user.
> P.S:  There isn't a .emacs file under root
> P.S2: Only when running emacs directly as root it uses the mentioned
> colors, when I use "su" it uses the standard colors.
> 
> Thanks for any advices.