Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!accwai
From: accwai@maytag.waterloo.edu (Andy Wai)
Newsgroups: uw.unix
Subject: Re: Setting EDITOR
Message-ID: <513@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 89 11:39:03 GMT
References: <11520@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <511@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: accwai@maytag.waterloo.edu (Andy Wai)
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Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo
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In article <511@maytag.waterloo.edu> accwai@maytag.waterloo.edu (Andy Wai) writes:
>In article <11520@watcgl.waterloo.edu> lindsay@watnext.waterloo.edu (Lindsay Patten) writes:
>>How can one set up one's EDITOR variable to pick the right emacs version
>>even in the face of scripts which set their own paths?
>
>setenv EDITOR `showpath findfirst=emacs`

Well, come to think of it, this is bad.  Starting up a new emacs on
every little thing is expensive.  How about:

setenv EDITOR /software/emacs/etc/emacsclient

and put

(server-start)

somewhere in your .emacs file.   Anyway, just a thought...

Andy