From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general,gmane.linux.debian.devel.emacsen Subject: Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:43:30 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87ty99otg1.fsf@jidanni.org> <87bovg5zhi.fsf@balti.ashgrove> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001517475850da17ba04ab2fbb9f X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314121424 19895 80.91.229.12 (23 Aug 2011 17:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" , "debian-devel@lists.debian.org" , "debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org" To: Toby Speight Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 23 19:43:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvv0l-0002JD-Mz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:43:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58347 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvv0k-0002md-IU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45493) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvv0f-0002jK-Qn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvv0e-0000V5-Gi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:65076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvv0e-0000Uw-5I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: by fxg9 with SMTP id 9so501967fxg.0 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:43:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=LLrSOHg1EMOWJV0mhrf+qjb97gTWfUrZAZU8+LSpRCo=; b=iHqgJBubzOLHsK/bn1vJzUD7DpLAhuVvrlUltUeYou7MihXYda2JBDyIKu+J1tTpmv 3BzfDKPJabYeN0mbTnzaK2NrLOoGtIwKezKVMZK9Z+MIAE/u3/BTAQLEoaQxKWmQB1Ve dlts/P6YloO7JqAod9QycId2vo8h6ZvdnI6EM= Original-Received: by 10.223.63.131 with SMTP id b3mr5772180fai.68.1314121410287; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.72.9 with HTTP; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:43:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bovg5zhi.fsf@balti.ashgrove> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.161.41 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82042 gmane.linux.debian.devel.general:164799 gmane.linux.debian.devel.emacsen:2702 Archived-At: --001517475850da17ba04ab2fbb9f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tuesday, August 23, 2011, Toby Speight 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. -- -PJ --001517475850da17ba04ab2fbb9f Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 "sudoedi= t" instead.

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