From: Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo text editors
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 02:12:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063185172.22714.50.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86pti9ox69.fsf@killr.ath.cx>
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On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 01:38, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> I know we have virtual/editor etc. but do we have a mechanism to
> invoke the users choice in editor?
>
> Not all stuff I've encountered cares about $EDITOR etc., and I ask
> because of a recent change in dev-lisp/clisp where i needed to set a
> specific editor.
>
> Any volunteers to implement the Debian "alternatives" system? Or
> maybe we just want a /usr/bin/generic-editor...
>
> Matt
For the slightly clueless, of which I am one, can you explain both
methods? The /usr/bin/generic-editor in particular piques my interest.
Thanks,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-10 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-10 8:38 [gentoo-dev] gentoo text editors Matthew Kennedy
2003-09-10 9:12 ` Seemant Kulleen [this message]
2003-09-11 1:07 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-09-11 2:08 ` Brian Friday
2003-09-11 2:25 ` Brian Friday
2003-09-11 3:54 ` Marius Mauch
2003-09-11 8:44 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-09-11 4:13 ` C. Brewer
2003-09-11 7:54 ` donnie berkholz
2003-09-11 18:06 ` C. Brewer
2003-09-11 8:39 ` Matthew Kennedy
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