Re: Broken emacs

To: eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin)
Cc: "David R. Kohel" <kohel@math.nus.edu.sg>, debian-user@lists.debian.org, Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: Broken emacs
From: Nicolai Guba <nguba@jungle.BT.co.uk>
Date: 13 Sep 1998 12:04:00 +0100
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In-reply-to: eichin@thok.org's message of "12 Sep 1998 14:14:48 -0400"
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>>>>> "Mark" == Mark W Eichin <eichin@thok.org> writes:
Mark> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.56/Emacs 19.34

>> This was precisely the problem.  The EMACSLOADPATH was set in my 
>> user account, and I was trying to install in a window with su root,

Mark> Ahhh.  I think it would be reasonable to explicitly unset this (and
Mark> probably other variables) in the emacsen-common handler
Mark> scripts... just as they should avoid running the user (or root's)
Mark> .emacs file...

Agree.  Who's going to contact the maintainer(s)?

-- 
Nicolai P Guba
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