emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:17:40PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> We want the user to set the preference.  The script needs slight
> modification to have a preferred value passed in via ENV VAR.

Well, the argument that emacs-nox has a benefit over emacs -nw may have some
merit on a system-wide basis, but is almost zero on a per-user basis. The
script should clearly prefer the X version if available, because then it's
easy to set a per-user preference via `alias emacs='emacs -nw'`. 

I don't think introducing a Fedora-specific environment variable really
helps anything.


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