Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

"Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
>> I disagree.  There is nothing wrong with it.  It is no different than:
>>
>>   # emacs -nw
>
> I would not do that either, not only because emacs is a huge beast which
> can have bugs, but most importantly because I don't trust myself in not
> doing anything harmful inadvertantly after some time [*]. 

Yes, but then, I *know* I will do something harmful by using a different
editor than the one I'm used to when occasionnaly editing as root, hence
my relentless destruction of any other editor than emacs on systems I
install, even before the first boot.


No, the only real risk with emacs, is that it's so agreable to use, that
you may forgot you're logged as root.   For this, I have:

    (when (= (user-uid) 0)
     (set-background-color "black")
     (set-foreground-color "red"))

in my .emacs files…

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