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"Pascal Bourguignon" <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com> wrote in message
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> "leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com> writes:
>
> > in this case i'd like to set the background to red or so... how can i
find
> > out in emacs lisp what user owns this emacs?
>
> Did you really try, or are you asking just to increase the trafic?

i looked up (with C-h a) everything containing "user", but couldn't find
anything.

> (when (= (user-uid) 0) (set-background-color "Red"))

thanks a lot! user-uid seems to be a non-user-command.

cheers, leo