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Re: Using Emacs as root ?
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Xiao-Yong Jin |
Subject: |
Re: Using Emacs as root ? |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:50:43 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) |
William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> writes:
> Hi;
>
> Kind of an Emacs beginner's question.
>
> I do only a little programming -- occasionally writing bash scripts;
> that kind of thing. I mainly use emacs from my desktop launcher to edit
> text files like my .bashrc etc.
>
> The other day I was reading up on man smb.conf in my gterminal and
> wanted to make some minor changes to smb.conf. I needed to open a new
> tab in the gterminal; su; then run emacs /etc/samba/smb.conf. That's OK
> if that is what emacs is designed to do. But is there a way to launch
> emacs and use some command in the emacs input line that will directly
> open a root protected file while I am user, perhaps combined with C-x
> C-f? Is there some key combination I can set up?
Try
C-x C-f /sudo:root@localhost:/
Or use su instead of sudo if you don't use sudo. You can get more
information in the info pages of Tramp in Emacs.
Xiao-Yong
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