[opensuse] Re: emacs woes

Andreas Jaeger writes:

Are you running Emacs as root and did a simple "su" and not a "su -"? That gives a different environment and might explain the issue.

Also you don't need to start Emacs as root- you can use tramp. For example to open a file as root: ,---- | C-x C-f /sudo::/some_directory/some_file.txt `---- Charles -- "Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs." (By Dennis Ritchie)