From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: SU commands from Emacs Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:28:21 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87ps1c55fu.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <878x8ahxho.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <87eji1hpmk.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <87y7g1s6qx.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188035355 29692 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2007 09:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:49:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 25 11:49:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IOsGW-0005pc-HR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:49:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOsGW-0000sI-2s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:49:12 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.germany.com!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+cg2mz2P4Gc9P8aGphjCxQLknEA= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151260 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46831 Archived-At: Dieter Wilhelm 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 -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au