emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:46:57PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > 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.
> Depends on your reason for wanting the text version :-)  If you just
> want to use it within a terminal then -nw works.  If you don't want to
> load the gtk libraries then you have to actually use -nox. (Not as much
> of an issue in these days of openoffice, firefox, and evolution, I
> know :-)

Right, I think that point is pretty much lost. :) Fedora is not a
low-resource distribution.

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