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: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:24:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86zhlkwhsf.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867e8oxx2q.fsf@dod.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:09:17 +0200")
>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Find-Init.html#Find-Init
> "However, if you run Emacs from a shell started by su, Emacs tries to
> find your own .emacs, not that of the user you are currently pretending
> to be. The idea is that you should get your own editor customizations
> even if you are running as the super user."
> Hm... this is annoying and new behaviour with emacs 26.
> Does anyone know if there is a way to get the emacs 25 behaviour back...?
I've been looking at the code in startup.el but I haven't been able to
determine where the cause of the new behaviour is.
Is it somewhere in startup--load-user-init-file ?
(I figure that if I can look at the code doing it, I can find a way to
undo it... this is emacs, after all...:-) )
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-11 18:24 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 [this message]
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
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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