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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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  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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