Re: Fast emacs?

[Richard Riley]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> writes:
>
>> For ***years*** I've been looking for a solution to this problem,
>> and I'm truly amazed that I have yet to find it: how to get a
>> fast-starting version of emacs.  The problem is that I have a big
>> .emacs file and a big Emacs desktop, which means that my Emacs takes
>> forever to start.  This is fine most of the time, but occasionally
>> I want a fast-starting emacs session (e.g. when I run "sudo emacs"
>> to edit a superuser-owned config file),
>
> C-x C-f /sudo::/etc/fstab RET

I use this which is great. Open the file in normal mode, and then C-x
C-r to switch to root privs.

,----
| (defun find-alternative-file-with-sudo ()
|   "Open current buffer as root!"
|   (interactive)
|   (when buffer-file-name
|     (find-alternate-file
|      (concat "/sudo:root@localhost:"
|            buffer-file-name))))
| 
| (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-r") 'find-alternative-file-with-sudo)
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