Feature request: share search ring amongst emacses

Feature request: share search ring amongst emacses

[Dan Jacobson]

Feature request: share search ring amongst emacses.  I run one emacs
as me, the other as root (with red background turned to remind me of
my "batcommand" powers).

Anyway, often I search for something in emacs A and then remember that
I should have been searching in emacs B, and then I gots to type in
the search string all over again or do ... C-s M-y or something more that
just the C-s C-s that I want to.

Anyway: two emacses, different UID's, same $DISPLAY.  Maybe also make
it work for two emacs -nw's.
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cope with root and non root personalities?

[Dan Jacobson]

[Was: Re: Feature request: share search ring amongst emacses]
RMS> Why are you using two separate Emacses?

One to do my root editing jobs, one for my me editing jobs.  The two
same emacses running all day.

RMS> If there is a good reason and that is really necessary for you,

I didn't really want to, but I thought "that's life".  I have the root
one with red background to remind me I'm root.  Can you pack all this
into the same cheeseburger for me? 

RMS> maybe we can do something to correct the underlying problem
RMS> so you can use just one.

I mean even a measly emacsclient from a different user id window seems
unsuccessful these days, XAUTHORITY non withstanding.

I dunno boss, how do the pros cope with their root and non root personalities?
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Re: cope with root and non root personalities?

[David Kastrup]

jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes:

> [Was: Re: Feature request: share search ring amongst emacses]
> RMS> Why are you using two separate Emacses?
> 
> One to do my root editing jobs, one for my me editing jobs.  The two
> same emacses running all day.
> 
> RMS> If there is a good reason and that is really necessary for you,
> 
> I didn't really want to, but I thought "that's life".  I have the root
> one with red background to remind me I'm root.  Can you pack all this
> into the same cheeseburger for me? 
> 
> RMS> maybe we can do something to correct the underlying problem
> RMS> so you can use just one.
> 
> I mean even a measly emacsclient from a different user id window seems
> unsuccessful these days, XAUTHORITY non withstanding.
> 
> I dunno boss, how do the pros cope with their root and non root
> personalities?

The pros use CVS Emacs not older than a week or so (or have installed
tramp by hand) and do
C-x C-f /[sum/root@localhost]/etc/fstab RET

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Re: cope with root and non root personalities?

[Richard Stallman]

On GNU/Hurd, you can temporarily make your existing Emacs be root.
On GNU/Linux I guess you have to make two Emacses.

Re: cope with root and non root personalities?

[David Kastrup]

rms@gnu.org (Richard Stallman) writes:

> On GNU/Hurd, you can temporarily make your existing Emacs be root.
> On GNU/Linux I guess you have to make two Emacses.

Or use tramp (it's available in current CVS, if you don't want to get
it separately) and edit
/[sum/root@localhost]/whatever

This will start an su session and use it to transfer mmencoded files
into and out of Emacs.  Transparently.

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Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de