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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 2-Nov-92 Re: emacs-18.59 pkg
for NeX.. by Stephen Anderson@sapir.c 
> It's been pointed out to me that the Emacs front end to emacs has the
> path /usr/bin/emacs built in as the place to find an emacs executable.
> This gives you (at least) three choices if you want to use it as a
> front end to the emacs-18.59 executable I posted today: (a) save
> /usr/bin/emacs as /usr/bin/emacs.dist and move /usr/local/bin/emacs
> into /usr/bin; (b) save /usr/bin/emacs as in a, and make a link from
> /usr/local/bin/emacs to /usr/bin/emacs; or (c) Get the Emacs sources,
> and edit the line in EtermView.m that forks the emacs shell to start
> up /usr/local/bin/emacs instead of /usr/bin/emacs. Of these, (a) is in
> some sense the most conservative, since you don't even have to put
> /usr/local/bin on your PATH if you don't have to have anything else
> there (move etags, ctags, and emacsclient in the same way). (b) is
> what I did - so long ago I'd forgotten about it.

or (d) Rewrite EtermView.m to look for /usr/local/bin/emacs and then
/usr/bin/emacs; better yet, have it search through current users' search
path for 'emacs'....

Admittedly, (b) is easier.

-Chuck


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