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Re: Problem with 'emacs'



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On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Big Gaute wrote:

> When I type emacs in the shell, it starts emacs19, rather than emacs20.
> If I type emacs20 emacs 20.3 comes up, so I know that it's installed.
> 
> What's wrong?  How do I fix it?

/usr/bin/emacs is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/emacs, which is again a
symlink to /etc/bin/emacs-19.34 (or something like this). Change the link
in /etc/alternatives to the emacs20 binary.

More info: man update-alternatives

Martin

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