Re: SU commands from Emacs

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

> 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?
>

I mention the scheme shells only because scheme is another lisp
dialect. anyone who is familiar with emacs lisp or common lisp probably
won't have too much difficulty learning a scheme based shell.

Tim
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