Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo text editors

[donnie berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 00:13, C. Brewer wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:07:36 -0500
> Rather than make Gentoo more like Debian-like (ick!), wouldn't it be simpler
> to set the ebuild for clisp to /usr/bin/editor and have src_unpack do a
> ln -s $EDITOR /usr/bin/editor, which would give a specific editor while
> leaving the $EDITOR variable alone? 

What if I happen to emerge emacs because I want to learn how to use it,
but would prefer that my default editor remain nano? Things like that
shouldn't change just because I emerged emacs.

Besides, I see it as quite Gentoo-like, given our history of *-config
utilities (java-config, gcc-config). It might make sense to have an
optional front end to all of them, so one just needs to remember
sys-config, and from there select various options (java, gcc, editor,
etc.).

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