11-20-2003
I agree with linuxpenguin. Working with multiple UNIX flavors at multiple companies, I tend to lean towards the lowest common factor. I know that I'll find vi everywhere I work. The same can't be said of custom editors, emacs etc. There is power in vi that people often overlook (buffers, typecasting etc.)
Cheers,
Keith
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
dh_installemacsen
DH_INSTALLEMACSEN(1) Debhelper DH_INSTALLEMACSEN(1)
NAME
dh_installemacsen - register an Emacs add on package
SYNOPSIS
dh_installemacsen [debhelperoptions] [-n] [--priority=n] [--flavor=foo]
DESCRIPTION
dh_installemacsen is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by the Debian emacsen-common package into package
build directories.
It also automatically generates the preinst postinst and prerm commands needed to register a package as an Emacs add on package. The
commands are added to the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb. See dh_installdeb(1) for an explanation of how this works.
FILES
debian/package.emacsen-compat
Installed into usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/compat/package in the package build directory.
debian/package.emacsen-install
Installed into usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/package in the package build directory.
debian/package.emacsen-remove
Installed into usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/remove/package in the package build directory.
debian/package.emacsen-startup
Installed into etc/emacs/site-start.d/50package.el in the package build directory. Use --priority to use a different priority than 50.
OPTIONS
-n, --no-scripts
Do not modify postinst/prerm scripts.
--priority=n
Sets the priority number of a site-start.d file. Default is 50.
--flavor=foo
Sets the flavor a site-start.d file will be installed in. Default is emacs, alternatives include xemacs and emacs20.
NOTES
Note that this command is not idempotent. dh_prep(1) should be called between invocations of this command. Otherwise, it may cause multiple
instances of the same text to be added to maintainer scripts.
SEE ALSO
debhelper(7) "usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz"
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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