Ville Skyttä wrote:
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.
Ok. I don't know them. I prefer Vim :)
Also, I don't know if XFCE comes with a text editor or a few,
they could also
be added to the mix.
I asked my friend and he told me that mousepad (already on the list) is
a good choice for a try with Xfce.
But, Xfce users, other propositions for Xfce are welcome.
> 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.
Thanks :)
> Btw, is there a simple way to determine already running desktop
> environment?
One way is in /usr/bin/xdg-open, see detectDE() in it.
A nice hack :). But it probably works.
I will think about some optimizations.
>> - 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.
xdg-open for open operation uses mime types and assigned application.
I'm not sure how application for edit operation should be defined/choose.
Marcin