From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?]
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:44:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877j10d2zd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1GFaoH-0004ul-Fs@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:17:09 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> ((eq system-type 'vax-vms)
> "sys$login:.emacs")
> (t
> ! "~/.emacs"))))
>
> Don't install that change!
> It would break the feature that emacs runs your
> own init file (not root's init file) if you have su'd.
>
> It would also break -u.
Yeah, it was ill-conceived.
What should we do? Would it suffice to update the Emacs manual to say
that the init file is looked for in the home directory of $USER
instead of $HOME?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-22 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-22 12:12 [Fwd: Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?] Lennart Borgman
2006-08-22 15:18 ` Chong Yidong
2006-08-22 15:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-08-22 18:17 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-22 18:44 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2006-08-23 4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-23 16:38 ` Chong Yidong
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