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From: m1edb00@fed.frb.gov (Eric D. Boutilier)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: How do I abort processing of .emacs?
Message-ID: <376@arcfs1.fed.FRB.GOV>
Date: 12 Jan 89 20:04:21 GMT
References: <103@garnet.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: randy@garnet.UUCP (Randy Orrison)

In article <103@garnet.UUCP>, randy@garnet (Randy Orrison) writes:
>I'm a little annoyed with the behavior of GNU emacs when I'm su'ed to
>root.  It reads my .emacs file (~randy/.emacs) instead of /.emacs,....

Emacs on our Suns can be invoked with a -u <username> flag
which means initialize with <username>'s .emacs file... so
maybe you can force it to use root's .emacs with:
	emacs -u root

On our system I su'ed to root and emacs used root's .emacs. I
think the problem might be with your su rather than emacs.

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