Re: Help setting up POP3 email (rmail)

[Robert Thorpe]

<cptvlaze@tutamail.com> writes:

> I have no idea, but emacs made it like this. ~/.emacs.d is owned by
> root, which can do whatever he pleases with it.

When you first started Emacs did you do it using sudo from your own home
directory?  I maybe that could cause .emacs.d to be owned by root.

Anyway, I suggest the following, which is probably simpler than mucking
about with chown:
* In your normal user account copy the stuff you want out of .emacs.d.  You
probably only want init.el if you've just started.
* Sudo and delete .emacs.d.
* Recreate .emacs.d and copy init.el into it.
* Run Emacs and it should work from your normal account.

BR,
Robert Thorpe

> No one out of him can
> do anything with the folder. I thought it was a normal configuration
> made by the editor itself. I can chown it, though. Could you give me
> the proper permissions that
> I have to give it? (Intended for my personal laptop, which could be 
> eventually used by other people, etc.)

>
> 24. Feb 2016 15:46 por tomas@tuxteam.de:
>
>
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>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 02:38:41PM +0000, > cptvlaze@tutamail.com>  wrote:
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>>> I also have a problem with my init file, as emacs can't detect it. I have
>>> created one at ~/.emacs.d/init.el, but this folder is protected (only
>>> accessible via su)
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>> This is a very strange thing to do. Why should something in your home
>> be ony accessible by root? (why should it belong to root in the first
>> place?).
>>
>> I mean: readable only by owner makes sense, but the owner should be
>> *you*, I think.
>>
>> Regards
>> - -- tomás
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