Re: Editing a file as root

[Kevin Rodgers]

Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr ( Se'bastien Kirche) writes:
>>I remember recent considerations about a bad behavior of emacs on osx
>>and communication with sub-processes. But i wasn't able to find them again.
>>Maybe it is relative to my problem ?
>
> The variable is process-connection-type.  Setting it to t makes Tramp
> work, I believe, but could cause problems elsewhere.  You could try it
> our for yourself -- if something else breaks then you know where to
> look.

Does tramp provide a hook where Se'bastien could do

        (set (make-local-variable 'process-connection-type) t)

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Kevin Rodgers