[tex-live] TL 2010 : Does XeLaTeX search for Emacs, and if so, why ?!

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Mon Sep 6 13:00:59 CEST 2010


> 1) The TeXlive Installer does not ask the user which editor
> he or she prefers to use (I think it should), and

Please, no more questions ... how many people use E,
and burden all of them with another question at install
time ...

No.

> 2) In the absence of any editor being specified, the default
> action of the binary should be to report "No editor
> specified : please set TEXEDIT and re-run".
>
> Both of these are IMHO, of course.

Disagreed, 100%.



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