From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: starting emacs remote doesn't load .emacs Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:19:56 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87wsttspgz.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <470CB421.3010606@softexperience.ro> <87bqb6xlh7.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192113671 9959 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2007 14:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:41:11 +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 Oct 11 16:41:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IfzDf-0008Rl-3E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:40:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfzDY-0005WE-Ue for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:40:52 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.asbnva01.us.to.verio.net!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1192112566 23407 132.183.29.121 (11 Oct 2007 14:22:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:22:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WSkvEjIqLsHqkL81RACesh1i6+0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152835 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48337 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > Stefan Horomnea writes: > 3. If you are running emacs 22, you iwll have tramp installed. tramp will > allow you to easily edit files owned by root or execute commands as > root. Use this rather than running emacs as root. To open a file, use /su:: To use dired in root mode /su::/directory Then get out of root mode as soon as possible (we're telling you this because we've made mistakes ourselves --- well, at least I have). Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109