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Re: Setting up Emacs as the default editor
From: |
Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: Setting up Emacs as the default editor |
Date: |
01 Dec 2003 14:44:37 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 |
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:
Tim> Klaus Zeitler <kzeitler+usenet@gsm-mailhost.de.lucent.com>
Tim> writes:
>> BTW I wouldn't recommend setting EDITOR to emacs
Tim> Why not?
It's a pain. Emacs gets invoked by all sorts of applications, and
Emacs generally has a bad start up time (depending on how fat your
.emacs gets of course).
Much better to set it to gnuclient, or emacsclient, or some such. Then
you can have a single Emacs with lots of buffers.
Cheers
Phil