Re: flag to use tor

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

    > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
    > ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
    > ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's
    > example. ]]]

    > Many Emacs commands connect to internet sites for various reasons.
    > vc does so, M-x irc does so, and I don't know how much else.

    > I want to connect through Tor all the time, but sometimes these
    > commands betray me.  I added a switch to VC to make it connect
    > through Tor always, but it would be good to have a facility that
    > would do this to all internet connections that Emacs packages
    > make.

    > Some packages connect directly in Lisp. and some connect by
    > running subprocesses.  For the subprocesses, using 'torsocks' is
    > an easy fix.  The hard part is to change all the packages that
    > need fixing.

    > A super-simple approach is to have a switch with two settings:
    > Tor, or not Tor.  A more complex feature would give a systematic
    > way to specify exceptions.

    > What do people think?

I run tor and then launch an xterm using proxychains using

proxychains /usr/bin/xterm <RET>.

I have

socks4  127.0.0.1 9050

in my ~/.proxychains.conf. This ensures that proxychains uses tor. I then
launch emacs in the xterm as a gui or with '-nw'.


Best wishes,