On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 22:14:03 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 08:29:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Excellent, that solves the problem for those on old terminals or > > lacking copy/paste. As for me, I'll continue to use /bin/su --login, > > as I have for nigh on three decades, so that I land in my preferred, > > consistent cwd, /root. > > su - > does the same thing, is less to type, and is portable. (It's > technically deprecated in favor of su -l, but it's unlikely to go > anywhere.)
I did apologise for the rather lengthy string that I've used. If you refer back to the penultimate paragraph of: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/03/msg00877.html which, to save your time, though it lengthens the thread, I'll quote here: "Similarly, I've always locked down my mc configuration, so changes I make don't stick. More idiosyncratically, I also load a fixed bash_history file with each xterm, so history added during the day is thrown away when I close down. (Which goes to explain my use of the rather prolix /bin/su --login above.)" it may provide a clue as to why I only have to type: /↑ Return to switch to root. If /↑ doesn't yield the line /bin/su --login, then holding down the ↑ key certainly will. IOW, that line is the only line starting with / in the bash_history file. Cheers, David.
