From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 09:53:51 -0600 Message-ID: <20130508155351.GA5399@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <0b72021c-139f-4269-8e81-5b5ef97fb83d@googlegroups.com> <8761yu64e4.fsf@Servus.decebal.nl> <87r4higq45.fsf@gmail.com> <87ip2tyftv.fsf@yahoo.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368028451 25030 80.91.229.3 (8 May 2013 15:54:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 15:54:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 08 17:54:10 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua6h0-0001my-6P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 17:54:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55606 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua6gz-0006u1-NX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 11:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50513) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua6gk-0006tv-GK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 11:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua6gj-00057V-7X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 11:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:43328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua6gj-00057D-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 11:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9EE5211DB for ; Wed, 8 May 2013 09:53:51 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 805282DC49; Wed, 8 May 2013 09:53:51 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ip2tyftv.fsf@yahoo.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90552 Archived-At: Nicolas Richard wrote: > Hugh Lawson writes: > > I use "sudo emacs -nw " in terminal to edit configuration > > This runs emacs with su power, which is not so good. I disagree. There is nothing wrong with it. It is no different than: # emacs -nw And surely everyone on this list would agree that emacs is a good editor for root to use. Bob