From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Subject: [Fwd: Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?]
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:12:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EAF4A8.9030708@student.lu.se> (raw)
How about this in Emacs 22?
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:26:27 +0100
From: Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
When I use `su` and run emacs, I get errors because it loads
~adam/.emacs as the init file, which contains
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.local/site-lisp/")
but then doesn't find the *.el and *.elc files there, because (as far
as I can tell) it's looking in /root/.local/site-lisp/, which doesn't
exist. Does that seem to be a correct interpretation?
When I use `su -` and run emacs, it loads ~root/.emacs as the init
file.
In both cases, `env` tells me
EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs
HOME=/root
USERNAME=root
USER=root
so I think the difference is here:
su --> LOGNAME=adam
su - --> LOGNAME=root
When emacs starts up, does it actually look up "~${LOGNAME}/.emacs"
instead of (what I would expect) "${HOME}/.emacs"?
next reply other threads:[~2006-08-22 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-22 12:12 Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-08-22 15:18 ` [Fwd: Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?] Chong Yidong
2006-08-22 15:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-08-22 18:17 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-22 18:44 ` Chong Yidong
2006-08-23 4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-23 16:38 ` Chong Yidong
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