Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-24 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-08-23, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com (23/08/2011): And for middle ages dog (not oldtimer) they are the ssh -X root@localhost trick or: sudo XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority wireshark For that you just need to give u+s to dumpcap

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Toby Speight
r == rdiezmail-emacs rdiezmail-em...@yahoo.de writes: r The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I r cannot navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and r unfriendly. But, worst of all, some key combinations do not work r well. 0 In article

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:14 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: KR == Kenyon Ralph ken...@kenyonralph.com writes: KR I use emacs under X to administer my Debian systems. I don't run it as KR root though. I use emacs TRAMP to use sudo to edit files as root on KR the local machine. On remote

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com (23/08/2011): And for middle ages dog (not oldtimer) they are the ssh -X root@localhost trick or: sudo XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority wireshark Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 09:00:25AM +0100, Toby Speight spake thus: r == rdiezmail-emacs rdiezmail-em...@yahoo.de writes: r The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I r cannot navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and r unfriendly. But, worst of all, some

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread jidanni
I am now officially pleased with sux, enabling me to use X programs as root despite http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633652 . Thanks everybody. Have a song, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLtzQXTHiqklist=PL38C412C876528CCB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread PJ Weisberg
On Tuesday, August 23, 2011, Toby Speight t.m.speight...@cantab.net wrote: If you feel you must run as root, and you want to use a mouse with emacs in XTerm, then xterm-mouse-mode may help: If you feel you must run Emacs as root, you probably want sudoedit instead. -- -PJ

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread jidanni
r == rdiezmail-emacs rdiezmail-em...@yahoo.de writes: r The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot r navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. r But, worst of all, some key combinations do not work well. But that's the way it must be here on

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 2011-08-23T08:35:58+0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: r == rdiezmail-emacs rdiezmail-em...@yahoo.de writes: r The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot r navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. r But, worst of all, some key

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread jidanni
KR == Kenyon Ralph ken...@kenyonralph.com writes: KR I use emacs under X to administer my Debian systems. I don't run it as KR root though. I use emacs TRAMP to use sudo to edit files as root on KR the local machine. On remote machines I do the same but in an ssh KR session in xterm (I don't use

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread Bill MacAllister
--On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 08:35:58 AM +0800 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: r == rdiezmail-emacs rdiezmail-em...@yahoo.de writes: r The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot r navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. r But, worst of all,