From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing a file as root Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:06:26 +0000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ptenb9p9.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071685286 19954 80.91.224.253 (17 Dec 2003 18:21:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 19:21:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWgIT-0006wu-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:21:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWhEt-00006R-18 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:21:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de (213.203.244.156) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071684396 6389549 213.203.244.156 ([73968] 10430) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dhEjJNYng5gromqixXq/MIdxqfM= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119440 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15377 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15377 sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr ( Sébastien Kirche) writes: > As a test i just tried the same commands from within eshell : i > seems that sudo works flawlessly, but i found that i lost the prompt > when suing. eshell is not a real shell. It is just elisp code. So eshell uses magic to recognize prompts: it prints them itself, so it knows what is a prompt. For su/sudo, the program prints a prompt, so eshell doesn't recognize those as prompts. "sudo bash -i" might give you a prompt from within eshell. Not that eshell will recognize it, but at least you can see it. Use "cd" to have eshell cooperate with Tramp. Kai