Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Tamas Papp]

On Thu, May 09 2013, Jonathan Groll wrote:

> Sure, you can forget you're root, (in all cases), but dired as root is
> maybe more than just a nice to have. For instance, it makes it easier
> to browse the system logfiles, etc. I can't say that I'd never use
> Emacs as root - it is simply too useful, and the trade-off of potential
> security risk versus utility seems to me to be one that I'm willing to
> make.

I have similar preferences, but instead of running Emacs as root, I use
tramp/su (or sudo on Ubuntu machines).  I am not an expert about these
issues, but I imagine that it is safer than running Emacs as root.

Best,

Tamas