Re: editorrc as update-alternatives slave

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Raphael Hertzog dixit:

>Yes you can. 

Thanks!

>(But it's a bit weird that those editors do not use their canonical name
>to find their configuration file and instead rely on argv[0]...)

The idea is: you get one binary, /usr/bin/joe in the joe package
(similar for jupp), and some symlinks /usr/bin/{jmacs,jstar,jpico,...}
to it. The binary then looks at its called name to determine which
of the /etc/joe/*rc files to load.

>When an alternative doesn't provide a slave, u-a drops the symlink (i.e.
>it will not be dangling).

OK. Will do it like that, then.

bye,
//mirabilos
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