Bug#476109: Not really an Emacs issue
This is not really appropriate for Emacs. Installing Emacs should not force users of other editors to receive a system-wide policy to use Emacs for editing these types of files (however sympathetic I am to evangelizing those poor heathens. :-) 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). However, it is unobvious to me which package to reassign this bug to. mime-support contains the tool for updating /etc/mailcap so that's what I would suggest, but I leave it to more competent people to possibly find a better route to take this. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#476109: Not really an Emacs issue
On 2009-09-02 08:36 +0200, era eriksson wrote: This is not really appropriate for Emacs. Installing Emacs should not force users of other editors to receive a system-wide policy to use Emacs for editing these types of files (however sympathetic I am to evangelizing those poor heathens. :-) 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. However, it is unobvious to me which package to reassign this bug to. mime-support contains the tool for updating /etc/mailcap so that's what I would suggest, but I leave it to more competent people to possibly find a better route to take this. 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. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#476109: Not really an Emacs issue
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:35 +0200, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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 debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
