From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24954 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Sep 2003 08:38:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 25254 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2003 08:38:39 -0000 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org From: Matthew Kennedy Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:38:38 -0500 Message-ID: <86pti9ox69.fsf@killr.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [gentoo-dev] gentoo text editors X-Archives-Salt: 936f2e0a-e138-490d-9962-411b87e75eec X-Archives-Hash: 22f9a03cd9e64410b0a39739452991e5 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 -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list