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From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@newartisans.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Eshell and Sudo
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:22:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d2vzic2z.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4kgcacu.fsf@dimension8.tehua.net> (Aidan Gauland's message of "Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:44:17 +1300")

>>>>> Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz> writes:

> No one, not even John Wiegley, seems to know why sudo/su works for some
> people and not others.  Debugging Eshell sudo/su is on my TODO list.  I
> don't even know whether this is an Eshell problem or a TRAMP problem.  I
> suspect tramp, since Eshell is only calling TRAMP (which should *not* be
> blowing up like it does for some people).

As a note, I do not think tramp should be involved by default in eshell/sudo.
This should be an optional module, em-tramp, which one can enable to bring in
such behavior.  It makes using sudo on localhost many, many times slower, with
no functional benefit.

Thanks,
  John



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-17  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-16 16:06 Eshell and Sudo Ian D
2013-02-16 19:07 ` Michael Albinus
2013-02-16 19:44   ` Aidan Gauland
2013-02-16 22:25     ` Aidan Gauland
2013-02-17  8:22     ` John Wiegley [this message]
2013-02-17  9:08       ` Aidan Gauland
2013-02-17 18:00         ` Michael Albinus
2013-02-17 17:47   ` Michael Albinus
2013-02-17 18:47     ` Aidan Gauland
2013-02-17 19:29       ` Michael Albinus
2013-02-17 23:28         ` Aidan Gauland
2013-02-18  5:07           ` Michael Albinus
2013-02-18 13:48             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-18 14:01               ` Michael Albinus
2013-02-18 16:24                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-18 19:20                   ` Michael Albinus

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