From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacsclient minibuffer
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 18:56:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150308184120919758545@bob.proulx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pp8jt2ze.fsf@debian.uxu>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-09 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-08 13:55 emacsclient minibuffer Stephen Chadfield
2015-03-08 18:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-08 21:33 ` Stephen Chadfield
2015-03-09 0:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-09 0:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-09 0:56 ` Bob Proulx [this message]
2015-03-09 2:09 ` Stephen Chadfield
2015-03-09 2:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-09 2:55 ` Robert Thorpe
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