Re: emacsclient minibuffer

[Bob Proulx]

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