Re: SU commands from Emacs

[Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

Hi Tim,

normally I'm also using commands which require root privileges from
the shell buffer.  But I'm forcing myself to use more and more Emacs
inbuilt functionality.  In this line of reasoning using find-grep on
/etc was actually inattentiveness on my side.  Reading the su command
thread I was wondering if Emacs could even do privileged operations on
directories.  And low and behold it can! Emacs never ceases to amaze.

Michael Albinus and Peter Dyballa, as you probably already have read,
explained that the new tramp version in CVS is able to do this via a
dired buffer and the sudo prefix as you hinted at.  Even though it
might turn out to be a bit dangerous for inattentive users ;-).

The idea of you with multiple Emacs processes seems not so far fetched
in general.  I read that some users are doing this quite comfortably.
But as I'm only occasionally dabble with computers it's clearly not
necessary.  But I'll check the tramp method when I'm in the mood to
download the CVS version.

Also thank you for the hints with the lisp shells, good to know that
they exist.  Why do you mention Scheme as well, how it is related to
Emacs and Elisp?

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany