emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:00:05PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> alternatives (you can use aliases, explicitly calling emacs-nox, etc)
> but none of them are really speaking to alternatives' strong points.
> IMHO, a /usr/bin/emacs script which does autodetection and looks in an
> ENV variable for a user defined preference is a cleaner interface for
> the user.

You don't even need the environment variable, as the user can set an alias
if need be.


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