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On 2006-08-22, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.DE> wrote:
>
> Am 22.08.2006 um 13:26 schrieb Adam Funk:
>
>> When emacs starts up, does it actually look up "~${LOGNAME}/.emacs"
>> instead of (what I would expect) "${HOME}/.emacs"?
>
> You might be able to avoid asking this question by invoking GNU Emacs  
> with the option --user or -u and then passing that user's login name.  
> Could be $USER is sufficient ...

I've changed the line in /root/.bashrc from

  export EDITOR='/usr/bin/emacs -nw'

to

  export EDITOR='/usr/bin/emacs -nw -u root'

and that's fixed it.