emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Andrew Haley]

Jesse Keating writes:
 > On Thursday 08 March 2007 13:01:16 Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Mmm, but that surely means that if you type "emacs foo.c" it'll just
 > > say "command not found".
 > 
 > Which leads us back to the other question, why can't there just be one, that 
 > defaults to x if you have x, but alternatively does --nox as a cli option.  

"emacs -nw" does that.

Andrew.