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Article #8273How do I abort processing of .emacs?
From: Randy Orrison
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1989 20:45
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1989 20:45
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I'm a little annoyed with the behavior of GNU emacs when I'm su'ed to
root. It reads my .emacs file (~randy/.emacs) instead of /.emacs,
which isn't too bad, though I'd prefer it read /.emacs. In my .emacs,
though, I have a backup package which I got from someone on the net
(Neil Gordon Smithline <neil%buffalo.csnet@relay.cs.net>) which puts
all the backups in ~/.gnubackups. For this, emacs expands ~ as /, but
I don't have a /.gnubackups directory, and don't want one. I'd like
to not load the backups stuff when su'ed. So, here's what I want to
do:
(if (equal (getenv "HOME") "/")
( skip-the-rest-of-.emacs ))
How do I do the skip? (Or, is there a better way to do what I want?)
Thanks!!!
-randy
(P.S. someday I'm going to read the elisp programming manual and
write a function that re-formats quoted paragraphs, keeping the '> '
at the beginning of each line, unless someone else has already done
this... hint hint)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!nic.MR.NET!shamash!garnet!randy From: randy@garnet.UUCP (Randy Orrison) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: How do I abort processing of .emacs? Message-ID: <103@garnet.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 89 20:45:12 GMT Reply-To: randy@garnet.UUCP (Randy Orrison) Distribution: na Organization: Control Data in the Hills of Arden, Minnesota Lines: 22