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Re: Setting up Emacs as the default editor
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Dan Anderson |
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Re: Setting up Emacs as the default editor |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:03:36 GMT |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
> >>>>> "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).
Yes, but while I can cut and paste between Emacs sessions,
it's generally a pain when an emacsclient pops up when I don't want it
to. Sometimes I *want* a seperate emacs session.
-Dan