Re: emacs to run as root from su, in its own X window?

2002-06-16 Thread Andrew J Cosgriff
Dan Jacobson wrote : > How do I get emacs to run as root when I do su, in its own X window? > $ su if you just want to occasionally edit files as root with emacs, you could install tramp. Then you just open (for instance) /[suu/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/etc/hosts in your normal-user emacs and it'll

two Info entries from emacs20, 21

2002-06-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gnu.emacs.bug as well. wow. This message consists of a debian problem and an emacs problem. First the emacs problem. lets say one has * Emacs: (emacs-20/emacs). The extensible self-documenting text editor. * Emacs: (

see \267 on man pages unless LC_CTYPE=C

2002-06-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
M-x man ddd gives \267's for the bullets unless one does LC_CTYPE=C. Is that the price one must pay for having LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5? Remember of course that sometimes I read Chinese man pages too. Emacs21.2 "reply to the list" -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: emacs to run as root from su, in its own X window?

2002-06-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gnu.emacs.bug as well. Great. Sorry for the irrelevant groups and even mangled address, but I just wanted to say I found the solution to folks on the places where I posted my original question. Solution = You guys go