On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > Minor but annoying point. It seems like in F9 there is no 'emacs' > > > command. > > > Instead I have to type (or tab-complete / alias / etc.) 'emacs-22.1.50'. > > > > > > Any reason for this or just a mistake? > > > > um ...F9? in any event, on my F8 system, there *is* an F8 file > > /usr/bin/emacs, but it's a symlink: > > Well OK, F8-devel = F9. > > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/emacs > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2007-11-11 04:52 /usr/bin/emacs -> > > /etc/alternatives/emacs > > > > you might want to run > > > > $ alternatives --config emacs > > > > and see if you're somehow missing that setup step. > > # /usr/sbin/alternatives --config emacs > > There are 2 programs which provide 'emacs'. > > Selection Command > ----------------------------------------------- > *+ 1 /usr/bin/emacs-22.1 > 2 /usr/bin/emacs-22.1.50 > > Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 1 > # emacs > bash: emacs: command not found setting up the appropriate symlink would seem to be a consequence of installing the emacs package. here's the deal with emacs on F8: ===== $ rpm -q --scripts emacs-22.1 preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then alternatives --remove emacs /usr/bin/emacs-22.1 fi posttrans scriptlet (using /bin/sh): alternatives --install /usr/bin/emacs emacs /usr/bin/emacs-22.1 80 ===== can you check the situation with the emacs you have? how does it differ from the above? this would appear to be a bug in the emacs package. of course, you could always just create the symlink yourself, but i would think that should be done by the regular installation process. rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
