sudo emacs

sudo emacs

[drain]

This somewhat downgrades root privileges, but I cannot encrypt mail without
it. Hitherto I almost never ran Emacs with sudo.

The problem is, I cannot access any files without sudo. Now all of my inits
require it.

I was thinking of creating alternates. Is it possible for .emacs to be
instructed to ignore certain files and load others depending on privilege?

I *believe* I've seen people write code that enables Emacs to distinguish
between the OS it is running on and run the inits accordingly, etc.



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RE: sudo emacs

[Doug Lewan]

I'm not a sudo-er at work, but I bet all the files you create (and probably get auto-saved) are owned by root (or whatever user you sudo to).

Maybe sudo-ext.el (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/sudo-ext.el) can help do the right thing. (No, I haven't used it; I just went looking.)

,Douglas
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> Subject: sudo emacs
> 
> This somewhat downgrades root privileges, but I cannot encrypt mail
> without
> it. Hitherto I almost never ran Emacs with sudo.
> 
> The problem is, I cannot access any files without sudo. Now all of my
> inits
> require it.
> 
> I was thinking of creating alternates. Is it possible for .emacs to be
> instructed to ignore certain files and load others depending on
> privilege?
> 
> I *believe* I've seen people write code that enables Emacs to
> distinguish
> between the OS it is running on and run the inits accordingly, etc.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: sudo emacs

[jpkotta]

On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 4:06:18 AM UTC-6, drain wrote:
> This somewhat downgrades root privileges, but I cannot encrypt mail without
> 
> it. Hitherto I almost never ran Emacs with sudo.
> 
> 
> 
> The problem is, I cannot access any files without sudo. Now all of my inits
> 
> require it.
> 
> 
> 
> I was thinking of creating alternates. Is it possible for .emacs to be
> 
> instructed to ignore certain files and load others depending on privilege?
> 
> 
> 
> I *believe* I've seen people write code that enables Emacs to distinguish
> 
> between the OS it is running on and run the inits accordingly, etc.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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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.