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From: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to back out of an root emacs install
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 21:56:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8np5c1m.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878u39bwkv.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:36:00 +0100")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Now I want to edit /etc/config.scm and add emacs and maybe other cool
>> stuff I just read about in the guix INFO.
>>
>> Can I do that from my root emacs install?
>
> Sure.
>
>> Or do I have to uninstall emacs and use zile to edit config.scm?
>
> No.
>
>> Or is there another way, grasshopper?
>>
>> Also, is the keymap that I hacked and stored in /root safe, or might it
>> disappear if I roll back or uninstall?
>
> It’s safe!  User home directories are not touched by GuixSD.
>
> HTH,  :-)
> Ludo’.

OK, I tried this today and it worked great. thank you! Great stuff!

      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-29  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-28  4:06 How to back out of an root emacs install myglc2
2016-01-28 14:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-29  2:56   ` myglc2 [this message]

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