From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 07:30:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86blxywlfs.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ims7vska.fsf@dod.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Fri, 12 Jul 2019 23:41:57 +0200")
>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
>>>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> I can't find any relevant change in Emacs in that timeframe.
>> OTOH it seems that the `su` that comes with Debian may have changed
> Hm... so I may have been barking up the wrong tree...?
However, there is something that I would say actually is a bug, ie. this
bit, quoted from an earlier message:
>> And the difference is more drastic than it would appear to be, because
>> emacs loads the .emacs file in my home directory, and then fails
>> miserably because that confif files expects a lot of emacs packages that
>> emacs is unable to find (ie. it does not use the packages under the
>> original user, ie. ~sb/.emacs.d/elpa/ ).
IMO If emacs decides to load the .emacs from a different place, it
should also load all user specific config from that place (~/.emacs.d/
.gnus.el whatever).
(If emacs had loaded all of its config files from the same place it
loaded .emacs, I would never have noticed any breakage and would have
happily used my native emacs config as root)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-13 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-08 22:16 How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root? Steinar Bang
2019-07-08 23:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-11 17:59 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 18:09 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 18:24 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 18:41 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 19:03 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-12 2:56 ` Perry Smith
2019-07-12 16:11 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-12 16:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-12 21:41 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-13 5:30 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2019-07-13 15:04 ` Perry Smith
2019-07-13 18:04 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-09 0:40 ` Perry Smith
2019-07-09 19:00 ` Tomas Nordin
2019-07-09 19:15 ` tomas
2019-07-09 20:04 ` Tomas Nordin
2019-07-09 20:20 ` tomas
2019-07-10 14:42 ` Nick Dokos
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