[Fwd: Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?]

[Lennart Borgman]

How about this in Emacs 22?

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Subject:     Location of .emacs file under `su` and `su -`?
Date:     Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:26:27 +0100
From:     Adam Funk <address@hidden>
To:     address@hidden
Newsgroups:     gnu.emacs.help


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"?