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Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to ro
From: |
Nick Dokos |
Subject: |
Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root? |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:42:16 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> ...
> But we don't know (yet) whether an env variable is the culprit
> (although it seems compelling...)
>
man su says:
For backward compatibility, su defaults to not change the current
directory and to
only set the environment variables HOME and SHELL (/plus USER and
LOGNAME if the target
user is not root/). It is recommended to always use the --login option
(instead of its
shortcut -) to avoid side effects caused by mixing environments.
[emphasis added].
That might have something to do with it. What happens with ~ might also
matter. How does emacs find the init file?
--
Nick
"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, (continued)
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Stefan Monnier, 2019/07/12
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Steinar Bang, 2019/07/12
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Steinar Bang, 2019/07/13
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Perry Smith, 2019/07/13
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Steinar Bang, 2019/07/13
Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Perry Smith, 2019/07/08