From: William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>
Subject: Using Emacs as root ?
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:38:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157841510.2423.32.camel@CASE> (raw)
Hi;
Kind of an Emacs beginner's question.
I do only a little programming -- occasionally writing bash scripts;
that kind of thing. I mainly use emacs from my desktop launcher to edit
text files like my .bashrc etc.
The other day I was reading up on man smb.conf in my gterminal and
wanted to make some minor changes to smb.conf. I needed to open a new
tab in the gterminal; su; then run emacs /etc/samba/smb.conf. That's OK
if that is what emacs is designed to do. But is there a way to launch
emacs and use some command in the emacs input line that will directly
open a root protected file while I am user, perhaps combined with C-x
C-f? Is there some key combination I can set up?
--
Regards Bill
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2006-09-09 22:38 William Case [this message]
2006-09-09 22:50 ` Using Emacs as root ? Xiao-Yong Jin
[not found] <mailman.6705.1157841502.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-09 22:59 ` Thorsten Bonow
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