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Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to ro


From: Steinar Bang
Subject: Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 20:04:31 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (windows-nt)

>>>>> Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>:

> You could alias su.  Personally I find aliases have problems.  So,
> what I find better are small trivial functions (assuming you are using
> bash/ksh/…) that changes the command you like to type into the command
> that “works” (by your definition of “works”)

Thanks!

My definition of "works" is "starting up without an error message
because emacs can't find all of the things referred to in the .emacs
file picked by emacs". :-)



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