Re: Setting up Emacs as the default editor

[Dan Anderson]

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