From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 01:21:30 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87obclrrb9.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <0b72021c-139f-4269-8e81-5b5ef97fb83d@googlegroups.com> <8761yu64e4.fsf@Servus.decebal.nl> <87r4higq45.fsf@gmail.com> <87ip2tyftv.fsf@yahoo.fr> <20130508155351.GA5399@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368057040 32714 80.91.229.3 (8 May 2013 23:50:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 23:50:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 09 01:50:40 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 1UaE86-0003dl-UM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 01:50:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52771 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaDvs-0002Vq-3t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 19:38:00 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net VFQaSNv2BQ9zxXE0eQ8figQZ4Nuiw3OVosVneT7/MUP+r0uTc1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZTFlNmJlODllYWJlNWI0ZTY3MzEzODk3NmM3YmJlZmQzZjYyZjY5OQ== sha1:Ojd4w/XSm36VagGpN56vH06ZT4Q= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198292 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 08 May 2013 19:37:39 -0400 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:90558 Archived-At: "Nicolas Richard" writes: > Bob Proulx writes: >> I disagree. There is nothing wrong with it. It is no different than: >> >> # emacs -nw > > I would not do that either, not only because emacs is a huge beast which > can have bugs, but most importantly because I don't trust myself in not > doing anything harmful inadvertantly after some time [*]. Yes, but then, I *know* I will do something harmful by using a different editor than the one I'm used to when occasionnaly editing as root, hence my relentless destruction of any other editor than emacs on systems I install, even before the first boot. No, the only real risk with emacs, is that it's so agreable to use, that you may forgot you're logged as root. For this, I have: (when (= (user-uid) 0) (set-background-color "black") (set-foreground-color "red")) in my .emacs files… -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. You can take the lisper out of the lisp job, but you can't take the lisp out of the lisper (; -- antifuchs