Re: launching a single instance of nedit for each text file

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Offer Kaye <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:24 PM,  Wayne Lydecker wrote:
>>
>> I hate to rain on your parade, but if I remember correctly each
>> executable requires its own switches, and they are not compatible.
>>
>> I do have an idea though.  Rename the current nedit executable to
>> something else and replace it with a script.  If first time run
>> it could inquire which executable to run.  After that it would
>> read the configuration file and launch the correct executable.
>>
>> This would force first timers to know about the two executables
>> and help them pick the correct one.  It doesn't solve the single
>> executable problem though.  Only fixing the switches will do that.
>>
>> -- Wayne.
>
> A bit late to the discussion but I would like to request not to get
> rid of the nedit executable, e.g. by merging nedit and nc into a
> single one. While the behavior of nc is usually what you want, it
> isn't always and it would not be a good thing not to have the nedit
> option.

Can you give some scenario where you don't want to use nc?
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