From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reasons for Switching to Eshell Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:00:20 +0200 Message-ID: <874pao9xjv.fsf@gmx.de> References: <8763v4pfv1.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206881953 28840 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 12:59:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:59:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 14:59:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jfx8Q-0001kX-8K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:59:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfx7o-0000J3-Fm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfx7V-0000Gp-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:58:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfx7T-0000DA-DO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:58:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfx7T-0000D0-6N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:58:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jfx7S-0002hK-FU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:58:42 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2008 12:58:41 -0000 Original-Received: from p57A23113.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO arthur.local) [87.162.49.19] by mail.gmx.net (mp051) with SMTP; 30 Mar 2008 14:58:41 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18H5RFzFKUHhdMEZpToWXIcdOtDkZiFfQH6xVcKMe Wh1I4h7hRnmk0h In-Reply-To: <8763v4pfv1.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:15:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52833 Archived-At: Mathias Dahl writes: > - Doing su or sudo su does not work like you expect. This works under > the normal shell (M-x shell). I am su:ing quite much (please, no > lectures about why this might be a bad idea) so for me this is > annoying. Tramp 2.1 supports it. Try "cd /sudo::" in eshell. Maybe you need Emacs 23 for this, I haven't tried with other versions. > /Mathias Best regards, Michael.