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- From: michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten)
- Subject: Re: emacs-18.59 pkg for NeXT posted
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.025955.13216@stb.info.com>
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:59:55 GMT
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- cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles William Swiger) writes:
- >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 2-Nov-92 Re: emacs-18.59 pkg
- >for NeX.. by Stephen Anderson@sapir.c
- >> It's been pointed out to me that the Emacs front end to emacs has the
- >> path /usr/bin/emacs built in as the place to find an emacs executable.
- >> This gives you (at least) three choices if you want to use it as a
- >
- >or (d) Rewrite EtermView.m to look for /usr/local/bin/emacs and then
- >/usr/bin/emacs; better yet, have it search through current users' search
- >path for 'emacs'....
-
- Or, better still, why not use the "system" call and let the shell find it,
- or use "execvp/execlp" library calls (the 'p' means search the entire path)?
- I'm suprised that more people don't use these.
-
- Michael
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