From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing a file as root Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:28:49 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FE1E3D1.9030809@yahoo.com> References: <87u13zb9sb.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071769007 15837 80.91.224.253 (18 Dec 2003 17:36:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 18:36:41 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AX24m-0006KS-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:36:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AX2xt-0004I1-Gk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:33:37 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071768525 7435403 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119486 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15425 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15425 Kai Grossjohann wrote: > sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr ( Se'bastien Kirche) writes: >>I remember recent considerations about a bad behavior of emacs on osx >>and communication with sub-processes. But i wasn't able to find them again. >>Maybe it is relative to my problem ? > > The variable is process-connection-type. Setting it to t makes Tramp > work, I believe, but could cause problems elsewhere. You could try it > our for yourself -- if something else breaks then you know where to > look. Does tramp provide a hook where Se'bastien could do (set (make-local-variable 'process-connection-type) t) -- Kevin Rodgers