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From: nate@hobbes.intel.com (Nate Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: How do I abort processing of .emacs?
Message-ID: <3430@mipos3.intel.com>
Date: 11 Jan 89 16:21:16 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,
>which isn't too bad, though I'd prefer it read /.emacs.

>I'd like to not load the backups stuff when su'ed.  So, here's what I
>want to do:

>(if (equal (getenv "HOME") "/")
>    ( skip-the-rest-of-.emacs ))

>How do I do the skip?  (Or, is there a better way to do what I want?)

What you might want to try is the function 'user-uid', which is
documented as follows:

user-uid:
Return the effective uid of Emacs, as an integer.

This suggests that you might want to try something like:

(if (> (user-uid) 0)
   (progn
     <rest of your .emacs>))

>(P.S.  someday I'm going to read the elisp programming manual and
>write a function that re-formats quoted paragraphs, keeping the '> '
>at the beginning of each line, unless someone else has already done
>this...  hint hint)

This has already been done.  Go check out Gnews 2.0.  It's an awesome
newsreader, as well as a place to scarf some useful Elisp from.

Happy Emacsing,
--woodstock
--
	   "What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking
	   and thinking...and suddenly you wake up."   - Hobbes

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