Add the following line to your login script (probably .bash_profile) in your home directory.
export EDITOR=emacs
Thanks, I'll try that on Monday when I'm back in at my workstation. I am curious how it's working on my laptop, though, as I have no such envar set and can't find any mention of "emacs" in either the .gnome* subdirs (find ~/.gnome* -type f -exec grep -i emacs {} \; -print) or in gconf (with using find in gconf-editor -- well, I found something referencing emacsclient). I wonder if there's another way to enable this behavior.
Thanks again, pete
