From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: notbob Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Tramp su from dired Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 23:11:56 GMT Organization: ....little, if any Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243122048 14532 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2009 23:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 23:40:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 24 01:40:41 2009 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 1M80pR-0007Iu-Mo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 01:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M80pR-0006V5-67 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 19:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.16.MISMATCH!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe20.iad.POSTED!800a5453!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@WWWSpace.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 23:11:56 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169427 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:64660 Archived-At: As a novice emacs fan, I'm learning by using emacs primarily as a file mgr and file editor. I often need to edit a root file as a user and have usually just opened up a new session of emacs as root, but would like to utilize the tramp mode. I've been able to edit a root file from via tramp when not in dired mode, but when using e (edit) or C-x C-f in dired and then specifying a file -- /su::/dir/foo -- I end up opening a new foo file instead of the existing foo file I specified. Is it possible to do su from dired or should I just open up a non-dired window? If so, how? (told you I was a noob) ;) nb