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[45.2.119.34]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l5sm34266539ioq.83.2019.07.15.06.04.52 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 15 Jul 2019 06:04:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 15 Jul 2019 08:49:01 -0400") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:163112 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > How 'bout let the /root/.emacs file do something like: > > (load (concat "~" (user-login-name) "/.emacs")) > > ? > For convenience, we could provide an ad-hoc function that would do that > "right" (i.e. looking for .emacs, .emacs.d/init.el, and things like > that). We could even put it in /root/.emacs.d/early-init.el. Wouldn't it be simpler to do this in the shell, e.g., cat >>/root/.bashrc <<'EOF' alias emacs='emacs -u "$LOGNAME"' EOF although I would personally suggest cat >>/root/.bashrc <<'EOF' alias emacs='echo Do not run emacs as root' EOF