On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 12:44:52AM +0200, Thomas Prokosch wrote:
> Package: joe
> Version: 3.1-0.2
> Severity: normal
>
> Using update-alternatives to set the default editor lists not only joe but
> also its alternatives jmacs, jpico and so on. However selecting one of
> these personalities always presents the user with the bare joe, which is
> understandable from a programmer's point of view (the joe binary itself
> does not know about the symlinks in /etc/alternatives) but is confusing
> for the user.
>
> Therefore it would be nice if these alternatives were wrapper scripts
> which called joe with the appropriate personality explicitly set. (The
> most basic solution would probably be creating wrapper scripts called
> joe-wrapper-jmacs, joe-wrapper-jpico and so on, and registering *them* to
> the update-alternatives mechanism.)
The program recognizes "which one it is" by the name of the calling binary,
and reads the configuration file /etc/joe/<name>rc. This in turn expands
to /etc/joe/editorrc in your situation, because the alternative for the
default editor is called "editor".
Notice this:
% ls -l /etc/joe/editorrc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2005-09-07 14:13 /etc/joe/editorrc -> joerc
We can't integrate that link with 'update-alternatives --config editor',
but you can adjust it yourself and pick the desired version that way.
Is this a satisfactory solution for your problem?
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