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
