From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tamas Papp Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 11:08:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87wqr8plku.fsf@tamas.ihs.ac.at> References: <0b72021c-139f-4269-8e81-5b5ef97fb83d@googlegroups.com> <8761yu64e4.fsf@Servus.decebal.nl> <87r4higq45.fsf@gmail.com> <87ip2tyftv.fsf@yahoo.fr> <87sj1xs9df.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <20130508194906.GA11349@hysteria.proulx.com> <87d2t0aa3v.wl%lists@groll.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368090534 1664 80.91.229.3 (9 May 2013 09:08:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 09:08:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 09 11:08:53 2013 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 1UaMqH-0006ho-0o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 11:08:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42892 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaMqG-00063R-9e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 05:08:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaMq5-00063F-6p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 05:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaMq4-0007Tg-9V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 05:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43580) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaMq4-0007TV-3m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 05:08:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UaMpx-0006NH-NL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 11:08:29 +0200 Original-Received: from catv-80-98-218-3.catv.broadband.hu ([80.98.218.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 May 2013 11:08:29 +0200 Original-Received: from tkpapp by catv-80-98-218-3.catv.broadband.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 May 2013 11:08:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: catv-80-98-218-3.catv.broadband.hu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jpnj/YWaOsKT/YeIV6d/mPhbVko= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:90569 Archived-At: On Thu, May 09 2013, Jonathan Groll wrote: > Sure, you can forget you're root, (in all cases), but dired as root is > maybe more than just a nice to have. For instance, it makes it easier > to browse the system logfiles, etc. I can't say that I'd never use > Emacs as root - it is simply too useful, and the trade-off of potential > security risk versus utility seems to me to be one that I'm willing to > make. I have similar preferences, but instead of running Emacs as root, I use tramp/su (or sudo on Ubuntu machines). I am not an expert about these issues, but I imagine that it is safer than running Emacs as root. Best, Tamas