From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: reader@newsguy.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs idiom for sudo Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 06:33:30 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87zm3vrfr9.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87k5v4doio.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <85veek8o80.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179917765 20897 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2007 10:56:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:56:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 23 12:55:57 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 1HqoVT-0005zy-G4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:55:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqoVV-0005L2-7r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 06:55:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqoVH-0005Kn-S0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 06:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqoVG-0005Kb-EC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 06:55:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqoVG-0005KY-9F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 06:55:38 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HqoVG-0007h5-25 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 06:55:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HqoKU-0004lZ-PV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:44:31 +0200 Original-Received: from c-68-51-187-92.hsd1.ga.comcast.net ([68.51.187.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:44:30 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-68-51-187-92.hsd1.ga.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:44:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-68-51-187-92.hsd1.ga.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8pdw6CDP/JLQ/FtRlpwySg0v8nA= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:44320 Archived-At: David Kastrup 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?