Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?

[Nick Dokos]

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> ...
> But we don't know (yet) whether an env variable is the culprit
> (although it seems compelling...)
>

man su says:

       For  backward  compatibility,  su  defaults to not change the current 
directory and to
       only set the environment variables HOME and SHELL (/plus USER and 
LOGNAME if the target
       user is not root/).  It is recommended to always use the --login option 
(instead of its
       shortcut -) to avoid side effects caused by mixing environments.

[emphasis added].

That might have something to do with it. What happens with ~ might also
matter. How does emacs find the init file?

-- 
Nick

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