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BEH: eshell and su

With this entry a new category for emacs related posts will begin here. Bits from emacs.help are tips and tricks found while reading the emacs.help mailing list

Well, this tips is how to use su inside eshell

From the post: “…Doing su or sudo su does not work like you expect. This works under the normal shell (M-x shell). I am su:ing quite much …” If you have tried, using su inside eshell is quite paintful, and doesn’t work very well. But, come on, there should be a way of doing it, right?

From the reply: “…Tramp 2.1 supports it. Try “cd/sudo::” in eshell…” And that’s it! you have a fully functional ’suded’ eshell with completition available.