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emacs-snapshot package

  1. Bug #63786
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 63786

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Francisco Borges (francisco-borges) wrote : /etc/alternatives link group lacks emacslient

Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot

1. emacsclient comes bundled with emacs.

2. emacsclient will *only* work correctly when the *correspondent* emacs has started a server.

Therefore I would expect that /etc/alternatives/emacsclient would be a slave (hate the terminology chosen) of the emacs master group in /etc/alternatives, and not independent. Which is to say:

sudo update-alternatives --config emacs

should also update the emacsclient links since they are: