Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:29:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast question abount EDITOR Message-ID: <201204051629.q35GTxjA043906@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <4F7D4273.1010604@netfence.it>
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Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > Hello. > > This might be a stupid question... however... > > %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw > setenv: Too many arguments. > > %setenv EDITOR "emacs -nw" > %crontab -e > crontab: emacs -nw: No such file or directory > crontab: "emacs -nw" exited with status 1 > > > Is there a way I can easily achieve the above? Not 'directly', the EDITOR variable has to be the name of an _executable_, it is passed to exec and friends, as the executable to load. There -may- be annother environment variable that emacs _itself_ looks at for start-up switch settings, (the 'minimal' manpage I have access to doesn't mention any, but I'm _not_ an emacs user and don'k have full docs available) If all else fails, put the 'command' equivelent of '-nw' in your emacs start-up file. > Do I really need a script which in turns call emacs -nw? Authoritative answer: 'maybe'. <grin> See above for some 'possible' alternatives. <cite> classic advice concerning the 'fine manual' </cite>
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