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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to
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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 19:20:29 -0400
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Hi Steinar,

>  debian 10.0 "buster", amd64
>  emacs 26.1
>
> I do /bin/su to change the user to root.
> HOME is set to /root

Good.

> However Emacs still tries to load /home/sb/.emacs

Weird.
I suggest you file a bug report.


        Stefan