On Saturday 22 September 2007, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
Ville Skyttä wrote:
Does emacs graphical interface (doesn't need a console)?
Yes. It also starts faster than XEmacs and integrates better with the desktop
(at least look and feel wise) so I suggest trying it before XEmacs in the
script.
Also, I don't know if XFCE comes with a text editor or a few, they could also
be added to the mix.
But if you know more programs (packagers) that have similar problem
a
script could be enhanced to be more "powerful" :)
I do see some general purpose use cases for such a script.
Btw, is there a simple way to determine already running desktop
environment?
One way is in /usr/bin/xdg-open, see detectDE() in it.
> - Would be nice to have this kind of a tool in xdg-utils, eg.
as
> "xdg-edit" or "xdg-open --edit". Ask xdg-utils upstream?
Why not. I wrote it because that option was missing in xdg-utils.
But maybe I'm the only one who needs that functionality?
I don't think so. Additionally, I think this would be useful for other file
types besides text files for viewing vs editing, eg. image files.