emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:05:42PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > 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.


But it's trivial. If you always want the text version:

 alias emacs "emacs -nw"

and if you want the GUI version when available, don't alias anything.



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