emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Chip Coldwell]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>
> 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.

Why is a script that checks a user-defined ENV variable preferable to
a user-defined shell alias?

Chip

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