From: Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com>
Subject: Re: how to find out which user instantiated this emacs process
Date: 25 Feb 2004 09:09:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87n0774m3f.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c1hg9h$1pjd$1@otis.netspace.net.au
"leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com> writes:
> hi there
>
> on unix usually i instantiate emacs as a normal user, but for special
> purposes i instantiate emacs sometimes as root with the same home directory.
>
> in this case i'd like to set the background to red or so... how can i find
> out in emacs lisp what user owns this emacs?
Did you really try, or are you asking just to increase the trafic?
(when (= (user-uid) 0) (set-background-color "Red"))
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-25 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-25 6:36 how to find out which user instantiated this emacs process leo
2004-02-25 8:09 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2004-02-25 23:26 ` leo
2004-02-25 23:46 ` Joakim Hove
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