Re: Tramp su from dired

[Tim X]

notbob <notbob@nothome.com> writes:

> As a novice emacs fan, I'm learning by using emacs primarily as a file mgr
> and file editor.  I often need to edit a root file as a user and have
> usually just opened up a new session of emacs as root, but would like to
> utilize the tramp mode.  I've been able to edit a root file from via tramp
> when not in dired mode, but when using e (edit) or C-x C-f in dired and then
> specifying a file -- /su::/dir/foo -- I end up opening a new foo file
> instead of the existing foo file I specified.  
>
> Is it possible to do su from dired or should I just open up a non-dired
> window?  If so, how?  (told you I was a noob)  ;)
>
Try

C-x C-f /root@localhost:/path/to/file/owned/by/root

Tim


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