Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:

> Nicolas Richard wrote:
>> Hugh Lawson writes:
>> > I use "sudo emacs -nw <filename>" in terminal to edit configuration
>> 
>> This runs emacs with su power, which is not so good.
>
> I disagree.  There is nothing wrong with it.  It is no different than:
>
>   # emacs -nw
>
> And surely everyone on this list would agree that emacs is a good
> editor for root to use.

Yes.  However, you must be conscious of the theorical possibility of
emacs lisp viruses thru file and directory local variables.

If you find-file in a directory where a malicious user has written a
.dir-locals.el file, he could theorically take advantage of it to root
you.  Of course, normally emacs ask permission to evaluate a form, or to
set any variable he doesn't know to be safe.  But if you type y or !
carelessly, you can be hosed.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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