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Customising .init.el for root user
From: |
Johnny |
Subject: |
Customising .init.el for root user |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:25:55 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Starting emacs as my normal user running a root terminal (via su), I want
emacs to start with some specific parameters that does not apply when
running as the normal user. Specifically, I want the color to be
distinct so that it is obvious which emacs is the root session.
I understand that by default the users init file is used [1]. This
never worked well for me, defaulting into basic settings, but after
looking into it and replacing any "~" references with full paths, it
works as intended.
However, this gives /all/ the defaults in the user init file, such as
the color-theme used. I already use the same init file for multiple
(well, two anyhow) computers and use a check which machine I am on for
some dedicated settings, e.g.
,----
| (when (string= (system-name) "the other machine")
| ..run some customisations...
| )
`----
Is there any similar way to check whether the session was started with
root privileges to set customisations? E.g.
,----
| (when (session-started-as-root)
| (load-theme 'wheatgrass)
| )
`----
with a 'session-started-as-root' function? Better methods??
I found one way is to default to a root init file by defining an alias
in the root .bashrc as
,----
| alias emacs="emacs -u root"
`----
however it would be nice to have only one init file to keep track of as
many tweaks are nice to have in all sessions.
Any ideas / good practices?
All the best
Johnny
Footnotes:
[1] (info "(emacs)Find Init")
--
Johnny
- Customising .init.el for root user,
Johnny <=
- Re: Customising .init.el for root user, J. David Boyd, 2013/06/21
- Re: Customising .init.el for root user, Christopher Schmidt, 2013/06/21
- Re: Customising .init.el for root user, J. David Boyd, 2013/06/21
- Re: Customising .init.el for root user, Stefan Monnier, 2013/06/21
- Re: Customising .init.el for root user, J. David Boyd, 2013/06/21
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- Re: Customising .init.el for root user, Barry Margolin, 2013/06/21
- Re: Customising .init.el for root user, J. David Boyd, 2013/06/21
- Re: Customising .init.el for root user, Johnny, 2013/06/22
Re: Customising .init.el for root user, Harry Putnam, 2013/06/21