Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!boulder!michael@boulder.Colorado.EDU From: michael@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Michael Schmidt) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: set EDITOR=emacs Message-ID: <4727@sigi.Colorado.EDU> Date: 9 Mar 88 17:26:57 GMT References: <8803072153.AA06846@elm.cs.rochester.edu> Sender: news@sigi.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: michael@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Michael Schmidt) Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, FB17/Informatik Lines: 24 In-reply-to: smithln@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU In article <8803072153.AA06846@elm.cs.rochester.edu>, smithln@CS writes: >How about a shell script like >================================================================ >#!/bin/sh ># Written by Neil Smithline on 3/7/88 - smithln@cs.rochester.edu ># System dependant location of emacs and emacsclient >EDIR=/usr/new > >case $TERM in >emacs | xterm | xterms) exec $EDIR/emacsclient $* ;; >*) exec $EDIR/emacs $* ;; >esac Why not just put a if ($term == emacs) then setenv EDITOR emacsclient else setenv EDITOR emacs endif (or similiar) in your .cshrc? Michael Schmidt