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Re: update of emacsclient.1


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: update of emacsclient.1
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:35:46 +0200
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Emilio Lopes wrote:


! You can either call
 .B emacsclient
! directly or let other programs run it for you when necessary.  On
! GNU/Linux and Unix systems many programs consult the environment
! variable EDITOR (sometimes also VISUAL) to obtain the command used for
! editing.  Thus, setting this environment variable to 'emacsclient'
! will allow these programs to use an already running Emacs for editing.
! Other operating systems might have their own methods for defining the
! default editor.
Thanks, I believe this is much less confusing for those users that use "other operating systems". Beside that it tells them that this perhaps does not work on their system it tells how it works on GNU/Linux.




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