So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:54:22AM +0200:
> >to less in /etc/alternatives/editor
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> There is no such file!
How do you know? In Debian and Mandrake, there's of course a
/etc/alternatives directory, and there may very, very well be a file called
editor in there.
Just because there's no such directory in your old standards, doesn't mean,
that there's something like this in current Linux distributions.
Besides - the user doesn't have to care about the alternatives directory.
It's nothing more than a directory containing some symlinks. In this case,
/usr/bin/vi maybe a symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor, which in turn maybe
a link to /usr/bin/vim. This is so, that the user can chose between vim and
vile as his default editor (just an example, of course). If the user now
wanted to to change to vile, he'd call a utility, which would change the
/etc/alternatives/editor symlink to /usr/bin/vile.
IMHO, this is a *VERY* nice concept.
Alexander Skwar
--
How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english)
Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de
iso-top.de - Die g�nstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen
Uptime: 1 day 18 hours 33 minutes
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
