From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ross@rosslaird.info (Ross A. Laird) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs22, Emacs23, and symlinks Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:21:59 -0700 Message-ID: <87r67ewax4.fsf@rosslaird.info> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221960169 15645 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2008 01:22:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:22:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 21 03:23:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KhDfs-0007Bj-LM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:23:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KhDeq-0000Vj-Iy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KhDeZ-0000Ve-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:22:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KhDeV-0000VS-DO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:22:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38996 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KhDeV-0000VN-4M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43920 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KhDeU-0000vR-Qo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KhDeO-0001y0-JS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:22:12 +0000 Original-Received: from h24-207-48-89.dlt.dccnet.com ([24.207.48.89]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:22:12 +0000 Original-Received: from ross by h24-207-48-89.dlt.dccnet.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:22:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h24-207-48-89.dlt.dccnet.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jp5aSSIT6SonJ4YBH34M/P/BjmM= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57862 Archived-At: rustom writes: > Look up update-alternatives Yup, did that already. It shows: Selection Alternative ----------------------------------------------- 1 /usr/bin/vim.tiny 2 /bin/ed 3 /bin/nano * 4 /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot 5 /usr/bin/vim.basic 6 /usr/bin/vim.gtk + 7 /usr/bin/vim.gnome 8 /usr/bin/emacs22 So, I think the asterisk means that emacs-snapshot is the default. But it's not what I get when I run 'emacs'. Ross -- Ross A. Laird, PhD www.rosslaird.info