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Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu> writes:
> I think the alternatives system should work fine for most users.
> 
> The problem you've described occurs only in the following situation:
> 
> 1. You install both emacs-X11 and emacs-w32.

At the moment emacs-X11 has a higher priority than emacs-w32.  All things
considered, giving emacs-w32 priority over emacs-X11 seems to be more generally
useful on Cygwin than the other way around.  I've done this locally and simply
change EDITOR on X11 startup when I have to use it.


Regards,
Achim.



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