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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: .emacs.d permission denied
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:43:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea37tv$1kv$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1153761494.174267.127920@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

RichT wrote:
> I sudo to root to set up a system, the set up command throws up a form
> in my 'favorite' editor emacs and when I try to edit the form, after a
> short time it starts beeping with
> Creating directory: permission denied, /home/.../.emacs.d
> I exit emacs and emacs produces a core file.

Yikes.

> On the advice of this forum, I added
> (setq auto-save-list-file-prefix nil)
> to my .emacs file to no effect. The version of emacs is 21.3.1 on
> Linux.

Since you've su'ed to root, I think you need to put that in the
root /.emacs file, or start emacs with -u $LOGNAME to get your
customizations.

> Does anyone have a suggestion? Around here everyone suggests that I
> switch to a different editor.

Very Impetuous.

-- 
Kevin

      reply	other threads:[~2006-07-24 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-24 17:18 .emacs.d permission denied RichT
2006-07-24 19:43 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]

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