On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 17:16 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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. > 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 :-) -Toshio
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