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 19:35:46 +0200 Message-ID: <43037572.1040906@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 1124302157 10464 80.91.229.2 (17 Aug 2005 18:09:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 17 20:09:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5SJQ-0001zC-00 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:06:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5SMt-0008A5-Kl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5SL2-0007a4-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:08:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5SL0-0007Z6-GX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:08:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5SIx-0006dk-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:06:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E5S58-0005VQ-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.200.233) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42BFBBD2008127AE; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:35:47 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Emilio Lopes In-Reply-To: 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:42193 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42193 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.