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From: reader@newsguy.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs idiom for sudo
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 06:33:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zm3vrfr9.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85veek8o80.fsf@lola.goethe.zz

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> M-x eshell RET
> cd /sudo::/etc RET
>
> and then working on will do quite a number of things at priviledged
> level.

I get:

  Welcome to the Emacs shell

  ~ $ cd /sudo::/etc RET
  Path substring '/sudo::/etc' not found

Are there special packages that need to be loaded first?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-23 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.880.1179633671.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-20  5:58 ` emacs idiom for sudo Tim X
2007-05-22  4:18   ` Amy Templeton
     [not found]   ` <mailman.947.1179807172.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-22  8:29     ` Tim X
2007-05-22 14:25       ` foo@bar.baz
2007-05-22 17:11         ` Peter Dyballa
2007-05-22 21:45         ` Xavier Maillard
2007-05-23  4:13         ` Tim X
2007-05-22 20:45       ` Michael Albinus
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1025.1179866756.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-23  4:18         ` Tim X
2007-05-22 22:53     ` David Kastrup
2007-05-23 10:33       ` reader [this message]
2007-05-23 12:02         ` Peter Dyballa
2007-05-20  4:01 Rustom Mody
2007-05-20  5:19 ` Eric Hanchrow
2007-05-21 12:07   ` Rustom Mody
2007-05-22  2:38   ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-05-22  4:38 ` Xavier Maillard

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