Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.21 Severity: minor
If /etc/alternatives/editor points to /usr/bin/jemacs, which is a link to /usr/bin/joe meant to call joe with emacs key bindings, then whenever "editor" is invoked joe will come up with its default behaviour (no emacs key bindings). This is, of course, due to the fact that the final binary receives the first name used in the symlink chain, which was "editor". The only way to break this flow seems to be to have an explicit call to the alternative (jemacs) somewhere in the chain. This minor breakage in the alternatives system usefulness could be overcome by turning /etc/alternatives into a script farm instead of the symlink farm it is now. Instead of re-linking /etc/alternatives/editor to the chosen item (/usr/bin/jemacs), update-alternatives would perform simple one-line edits, through sed, on the /etc/alternatives/editor script, changing 'exec vi "$@"' to 'exec jemacs "$@"'. Thanks for your time. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/
