From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I'am root user, but 'emacs /etc/sudoers' still report Buffer is read-only: # in modeline Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 04:31:03 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87egn1ghaw.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <819c0a76-13fb-4d38-baa3-8ca429e8cf31@googlegroups.com> <87618e8zq4.fsf@debian.uxu> <87383iu18y.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430447419 32190 80.91.229.3 (1 May 2015 02:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 02:30:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 01 04:30:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yo0iX-0008Sd-SZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 May 2015 04:30:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46537 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yo0iX-0001w8-0O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:30:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.ecp.fr!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qQk0ro1BDkYCdlx351SMMTjVTus= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211839 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104122 Archived-At: Bob Proulx writes: > Not necessary when using the typical sudo > configuration. OK, this line in /etc/sudoers does it: Defaults env_keep += "HOME LOGNAME EDITOR" Then one can just do 'sudo visudo' and the tildes (the ~s) in the configs can be left tildes and still refer to HOME. LOGNAME is preserved otherwise this line (setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message "incal") will break. EDITOR is to get Emacs, of course. I don't know if this is something that people "typically" bother with, but now it works, and some knowledge has been gained. Remember, "Little by little, it's the finest meal - it's appetite for hope..." And I agree. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573