On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:35 +0200, "Sven Joachim" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2009-09-02 08:36 +0200, era eriksson wrote: > > The idea as such has some merit. Debian already provides a facility for > > generic redirection to the user's preferred editor, so this suggestion > > could be implemented with /usr/bin/editor instead of emacsclient (this > > also solves the issue of allowing users to prefer emacs over > > emacsclient). > > With /usr/bin/sensible-editor rather than /usr/bin/editor, so that users > get their preferred editor instead of the system one.
Yes, sorry, that's of course the one I meant. Shrug. > The big problem is that the editor may need a terminal to work, and if > it gets invoked by a GUI program, nothing happens, aside from a > complaint by the editor in ~/.xsession-errors that is invisible to the > user. Should there be a sensible-gui-editor as well? Perhaps a wrapper which starts the sensible-editor in an xterm if it's not graphical in its own right? /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
