On Tuesday, August 23, 2011, Toby Speight <T.M.Speight.90@cantab.net> wrote:

> If you feel you must run as root, and you want to use a mouse with emacs
> in XTerm, then xterm-mouse-mode may help:

If you feel you must run Emacs as root, you probably want "sudoedit"
instead.

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-PJ