emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:43 -0500, Chip Coldwell wrote:
> 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?
> 
Example: network shared home directories.  When mounted on the server, I
might have emacs-nox, on the lab computer emacs-gtk and emacs-nox, and
on my workstation emacs-gtk only.  If the home directory is nfs mounted
how can I set the alias in this environment?  Having a script that does
autodetection and has a "user prefers" setting makes more sense.

-Toshio

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/attachments/20070308/a246d1e7/attachment.sig>