emacs and /etc/alternatives
Ian Burrell
ianburrell at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 18:33:17 UTC 2007
On 3/8/07, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> Jesse Keating writes:
> >
> > Or simply name the binary of one emacs-nox and the other emacs. If nothing
> > else conflicts that is.
>
> Mmm, but that surely means that if you type "emacs foo.c" it'll just
> say "command not found".
>
Which is why /usr/bin/emacs is currently a shell script that chooses
between emacs-x and emacs-nox.
The alternatives system is the standard way of choosing between two
different versions of a command and might work beter for this.
- Ian
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