On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:50:56AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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
>
> It is confusing to set an alternative editor but the editor behaves like
> an alternative has never been set.
I can imagine.
> > We can't integrate that link with 'update-alternatives --config editor',
> > but you can adjust it yourself and pick the desired version that way.
>
> Probably it would be best if the joe package would not provide all those
> alternatives if the editorrc cannot be integrated into the
> update-alternatives system.
Hm. Perhaps it can, however, we could add it as a slave just like we add the
manual page. I'll have to test it.
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