On Saturday 22 September 2007, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: > Ville Skyttä wrote: > Does emacs graphical interface (doesn't need a console)? Yes. It also starts faster than XEmacs and integrates better with the desktop (at least look and feel wise) so I suggest trying it before XEmacs in the script. Also, I don't know if XFCE comes with a text editor or a few, they could also be added to the mix. > But if you know more programs (packagers) that have similar problem a > script could be enhanced to be more "powerful" :) I do see some general purpose use cases for such a script. > Btw, is there a simple way to determine already running desktop > environment? One way is in /usr/bin/xdg-open, see detectDE() in it. > > - Would be nice to have this kind of a tool in xdg-utils, eg. as > > "xdg-edit" or "xdg-open --edit". Ask xdg-utils upstream? > > Why not. I wrote it because that option was missing in xdg-utils. > > But maybe I'm the only one who needs that functionality? I don't think so. Additionally, I think this would be useful for other file types besides text files for viewing vs editing, eg. image files. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
