From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: update of emacsclient.1 Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:10:18 +0200 Message-ID: <43031B1A.3040106@student.lu.se> References: <8t64u4vopo.fsf@tiscali.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124278904 19171 80.91.229.2 (17 Aug 2005 11:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:41:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 17 13:41:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5MHl-0007w8-FA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:40:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5MLE-00068H-3t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:44:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5MC2-0002ib-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5M96-0002Bl-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:31:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5M94-0001mQ-Ly for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:31:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E5M46-0001Ec-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:26:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.200.233) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B93717008B172C; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:10:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Emilio Lopes In-Reply-To: <8t64u4vopo.fsf@tiscali.de> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42177 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42177 Emilio Lopes wrote: >What people think of changing the above paragraph to > > You can either call emacsclient directly or set the environment > variable EDITOR to 'emacsclient' and let other programs run it for > you, thus using an existing Emacs to edit the file. > > I think it is good to change the original text. However I would like to suggest to use a more OS neutral text. I do not believe the proposed use of EDITOR always work. Maybe you can say something like "Many programs look in the environment variable EDITOR ... "? I think it would also be good to mention the desktop integration. I do not know exactly how this look on other OS:es but on my w32 system clicking a file of a type associated with Emacs will open this by calling gnuclientw (which is soon to be replaced by emacsclientw on w32 I hope).