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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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Seemant Kulleen
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Gentoo Linux					http://dev.gentoo.org/~seemant

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  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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