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Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?
From: |
Adam Funk |
Subject: |
Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`? |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:26:27 +0100 |
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slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) |
When I use `su` and run emacs, I get errors because it loads
~adam/.emacs as the init file, which contains
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.local/site-lisp/")
but then doesn't find the *.el and *.elc files there, because (as far
as I can tell) it's looking in /root/.local/site-lisp/, which doesn't
exist. Does that seem to be a correct interpretation?
When I use `su -` and run emacs, it loads ~root/.emacs as the init
file.
In both cases, `env` tells me
EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs
HOME=/root
USERNAME=root
USER=root
so I think the difference is here:
su --> LOGNAME=adam
su - --> LOGNAME=root
When emacs starts up, does it actually look up "~${LOGNAME}/.emacs"
instead of (what I would expect) "${HOME}/.emacs"?
- Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?,
Adam Funk <=