From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient minibuffer Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 18:56:45 -0600 Message-ID: <20150308184120919758545@bob.proulx.com> References: <87sidffj8y.fsf@debian.uxu> <87lhj7586d.fsf@debian.uxu> <87pp8jt2ze.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425862625 26902 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2015 00:57:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 00:57:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 09 01:57:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YUm0D-0002q1-QU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 01:57:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUm0D-00059L-0I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2015 20:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUm02-00059F-EL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2015 20:56:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUlzz-0007vg-8K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2015 20:56:50 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:41217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUlzz-0007va-18 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2015 20:56:47 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C9C2182B for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2015 18:56:45 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4D68C2DC45; Sun, 8 Mar 2015 18:56:45 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87pp8jt2ze.fsf@debian.uxu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103081 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg wrote: > By the way, you can find out what Emacs executable you > use with > readlink -e `type emacs` Small typo. You wanted `type -p emacs` there. :-) > which will track down the last symlink. Or you can run update-alternatives to query it for what is active. This is a Debian specific feature. On a server: rwp@despair:~$ update-alternatives --display emacs emacs - auto mode link currently points to /usr/bin/emacs23-nox /usr/bin/emacs22-nox - priority 25 slave emacs.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.1emacs22.gz /usr/bin/emacs23-nox - priority 26 slave emacs-128x128.png: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/emacs23.png slave emacs-16x16.png: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/emacs23.png slave emacs-24x24.png: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/emacs23.png slave emacs-32x32.png: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/emacs23.png slave emacs-48x48.png: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/emacs23.png slave emacs-document.svg: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes/emacs23-document.svg slave emacs.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.emacs23.1.gz slave emacs.svg: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs23.svg Current 'best' version is '/usr/bin/emacs23-nox'. The idea is that documentation and man pages are also linked to the alternative. As alternatives are selected the documentation follows. Some time ago I wrote up a mailing list message describing the Debian alternative system. If you are interested in the rationale behind things I think this is a good explanation of it. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/08/msg02808.html Bob