Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: New To Emacs

[Nathan Eckenrode]

Sorry about taking this way off topic- I just started using eMacs, and
am really brand new to Linux as well. None the less, I assume that as I
apt-get installed from the repositories at Ubuntu to get my emacs21,
that I am going to need to do a bit more work to get TRAMPS, so that I
can edit as a superuser.
 
I'm probably also going to need a person to interpret many of the
manual entries for me at first as I have been baffled at how to set up
gnus or any other newsreader for emacs ( I want to move my IMAP
newsgroups from college into emacs and link the work that we do there
to the wiki sites that all maintained by planner. There I got back on
topic!)

Thanks.

On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 07:25:25 +1100 Trent Buck <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Jim Crossley <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Not to get too off-topic, but...
> >
> > Edward O'Connor <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >>> Additionally, how do I edit as root in emacs? I don't want to
> >>> leave emacs but want to edit my /etc/apt/sources.list, which
> >>> require that I edit as a superuser.
> >>
> >> C-x C-f /sudo::/etc/apt/sources.list RET
> >
> > That's cool, but it doesn't work for me.  :-(
> >
> > Instead, ange-ftp seems to think 'sudo' is the name of a host.  Am I
> > missing some package or config?
> 
> TRAMP is distributed with GNU Emacs 22.  You must install it
> separately if you use GNU Emacs 21.
>