Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!accwai
From: accwai@maytag.waterloo.edu (Andy Wai)
Newsgroups: uw.unix
Subject: Re: Setting EDITOR
Message-ID: <511@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 89 20:33:34 GMT
References: <11520@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: accwai@maytag.waterloo.edu (Andy Wai)
Distribution: uw
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo
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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`

>Previously, I set
>my path so that I got the right one but now some scripts set their own path
>and I end up getting the wrong emacs.  What is the best way of setting this
>variable?

That's a bug.  The script in question (icr-hardware-request I would
assume) has been fixed to restore PATH just before the editor is invoked.

Andy