The Modernization of Emacs

[David Kastrup]

notbob <notbob at nothome.com> writes:

> On 2007-06-21, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> You know you can use something like
>> C-x C-f /su::/etc/fstab RET
>> (or /sudo::/etc/fstab) in order to edit files as root in a normal
>> Emacs session?
>
> As I understand it, this will only work for ver 22 and later or if
> you have tramp(?) installed.  I have 2.3.1 (no tramp) and all I get is:
>
> ftp> open su
> ftp: su: Unknown host

I should think that version 2.3.1 would not even try ftp.  Is that on
Multics?

> I'm looking at upgrading to 22 for a couple other features, too.  

You'll find that the last 30 years of development indeed make a
difference.

-- 
David Kastrup