Re: sudo emacs

[jpkotta <jpkotta@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 4:06:18 AM UTC-6, drain wrote:
> This somewhat downgrades root privileges, but I cannot encrypt mail without
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> The problem is, I cannot access any files without sudo. Now all of my inits
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> I was thinking of creating alternates. Is it possible for .emacs to be
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> I *believe* I've seen people write code that enables Emacs to distinguish
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> between the OS it is running on and run the inits accordingly, etc.
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You can use tramp to edit files as root (instead of finding "/home/user/file", find "/sudo:root@hostname:/home/user/file").  Maybe there's a way to automatically prepend the tramp sudo stuff for certain files.  Take a look at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OpenWith for one possible method.

You can certainly split your init file, but that seems like it's solving the wrong problem.