Re: Tramp su from dired

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

notbob <notbob@nothome.com> writes:

> As a novice emacs fan, I'm learning by using emacs primarily as a file mgr
> and file editor.  I often need to edit a root file as a user and have
> usually just opened up a new session of emacs as root, but would like to
> utilize the tramp mode.  I've been able to edit a root file from via tramp
> when not in dired mode, but when using e (edit) or C-x C-f in dired and then
> specifying a file -- /su::/dir/foo -- I end up opening a new foo file
> instead of the existing foo file I specified.  
>
> Is it possible to do su from dired or should I just open up a non-dired
> window?  If so, how?  (told you I was a noob)  ;)

If you open dired with "file" name /su::/dir you have the remote
directory listing for navigating like for local directories. Just
clicking on the file foo shall open that file.

> nb

Best regeads, Michael.