On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:06:44PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > However, the case gets more interesting once gtk or athena based > versions are available. Then choice could indeed play a role, and > environment variables or some other per-user tunable would be nice. (I > suppose just running /usr/bin/emacs-gtk or somesuch would work.)
Technically that would be $EDITOR (which can be set appropriately in one's .profile, according to what is available).