Re: emacs and /etc/alternatives

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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Friday 09 March 2007 13:03:07 Chip Coldwell wrote:
> > The user can still "alias emacs=xemacs" or put a wrapper script in
> > $HOME/bin.  Functionally, the /etc/alternatives is only setting a
> > systemwide default, precisely the same thing the systemwide wrapper script
> > does, but does it in a standardized way instead of making up our own
> > per-package standard.
> 
> And I think neither of these are suitable solutions for something that is 
> really a user preference not a site preference.  But *shrug* I just hate this 
> problem.

It's unavoidable.  If there are several versions of emacs, and we expect 
something sensible to happen when we type "emacs" at the command prompt, 
then there must be a default.

Chip

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