From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: update of emacsclient.1
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:35:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43037572.1040906@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l1zmrg1ovs.fsf@tiscali.de>
Emilio Lopes wrote:
>
>! You can either call
> .B emacsclient
>! directly or let other programs run it for you when necessary. On
>! GNU/Linux and Unix systems many programs consult the environment
>! variable EDITOR (sometimes also VISUAL) to obtain the command used for
>! editing. Thus, setting this environment variable to 'emacsclient'
>! will allow these programs to use an already running Emacs for editing.
>! Other operating systems might have their own methods for defining the
>! default editor.
>
>
Thanks, I believe this is much less confusing for those users that use
"other operating systems". Beside that it tells them that this perhaps
does not work on their system it tells how it works on GNU/Linux.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-17 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-17 10:32 update of emacsclient.1 Emilio Lopes
2005-08-17 11:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-17 13:30 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-17 16:58 ` Emilio Lopes
2005-08-17 17:35 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-08-19 16:15 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-19 16:33 ` Emilio Lopes
2005-08-20 17:22 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-27 18:21 ` Emilio Lopes
2005-08-27 22:02 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-08-19 16:42 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2005-08-19 18:45 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-08-18 14:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-18 15:24 ` Lennart Borgman
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