On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 18:46, Carlos Sousa wrote: > 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).
Programs just shouldn't rely on their executed name to determine their behavior. It's not portable, and can cause problems in other situations (as you have shown). There's a reason it's against the GNU Coding Standards. I suggest you reassign this bug to joe, and have its authors turn "jemacs" into a shell script or small C program which just execs joe with an argument like --emacs-keybindings. That will always work.
