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Article #4301Re: emacs-18.59 pkg for NeXT posted
From: Michael Gersten
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:59
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:59
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cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles William Swiger) writes: >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 > >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'.... Or, better still, why not use the "system" call and let the shell find it, or use "execvp/execlp" library calls (the 'p' means search the entire path)? I'm suprised that more people don't use these. Michael -- Michael Gersten michael@stb.info.com NeXT Register Developer (NeRD) # 3860 -- Hire me! Quick! Will program computers for food (and net connection, health benefits, cash,...)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!netcon!xenon!xyzoom!denwa!stb!michael From: michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten) Subject: Re: emacs-18.59 pkg for NeXT posted Message-ID: <1992Dec13.025955.13216@stb.info.com> Organization: STB BBS, La, Ca, 310 319 3778 References: <MexQQpq00iV447mxws@andrew.cmu.edu> Distribution: comp Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:59:55 GMT Lines: 20