DISCUSSION: LINUX ALTERNATIVES HOWTO

krishvij · 05-13-2005, 04:21 PM

This thread is to discuss the article titled: LINUX ALTERNATIVES HOWTO

linmix · 06-07-2006, 01:32 PM

Nice! Call me lazy, but to decide which editor to open a text file with in Gnome I simply rightclick the file, select 'properties', go to the 'open with' tab and select the default app to open with from then on.

cbutterfield · 03-03-2009, 06:41 PM

In the original article, it says to register

Code:

/etc/alternatives/myeditor

with KDE (or whatever). Shouldn't that be

Code:

/etc/alternatives/editor

based on the prior commands? I thought "myeditor" is just used as the name of the config file (in /var/lib/alternatives).