From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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 14:17:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1GFaoH-0004ul-Fs@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874pw4u7dj.fsf@furball.mit.edu> (message from Chong Yidong on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:18:00 -0400)
((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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-22 18:17 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 [this message]
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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