Hello, On Wed, 03 Aug 2011, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Could we add /var/lib/misc/editorrc (the new agreed-on > path for editorrc shared across jupp and joe) as slave > to update-alternatives for editor?
Yes you can. (But it's a bit weird that those editors do not use their canonical name to find their configuration file and instead rely on argv[0]...) > Editors that don't > use it, like vi and nano, need then not define it and > will just have /var/lib/misc/editorrc dangling (or be > nonexistant), while editors that do define it (like joe, > jupp, and their variants jstar, jmacs, jpico, etc.) have > a symlink there which points to /etc/joe/joerc and so on, > depending on the editor choice. When an alternative doesn't provide a slave, u-a drops the symlink (i.e. it will not be dangling). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
