Hi Greg,
This has occurred to me, but seemed like a bit of a hack and less convenient to transfer to other machines... > do it manually, not with update-alternatives Why so? Could I not feed the script path to update-alternatives install? Thanks On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 at 14:02, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 13:09:06 +0300, Dmitrii Odintcov wrote: > > Let's say I want to install VS Code / Codium as an alternative for > > `/usr/bin/editor`, but I want it to always run with `--wait > > --reuse-window` so that other software can rely on the editor > > returning after the file is saved (like `crontab -e` does, for > > example) > > > > I cannot do `update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor > > "$(which codium) --wait --reuse-window" 0` because the "alternative > > path doesn't exist". > > > > Suggestions? > > Write a wrapper script like > > > #!/bin/sh > exec codium --wait --reuse-window "$@" > > > and use this script as the symlink target of /usr/bin/editor (do it > manually, not with update-alternatives). Don't forget to chmod 755. >
