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Re: joe-2.8 - a new package for review
Hello John,
>> From: letters@hotpop.com [mailto:letters@hotpop.com]
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x root/None 0 2003-07-04 14:17:34 etc/joe/
>> -rw-r--r-- root/None 17169 2003-07-04 14:17:34 etc/joe/joerc
[...]
> These would be better copied into position by a postinstall script
> if they don't already exist. Otherwise a reinstallation/new installation
> will overwrite user modifications.
IIRC, userfiles belong in ~/, the home directory, if a .joerc is found
there it overrides the global settings. So there is no need to modify
the default settings in /etc/joe/ which are just what the name says:
'default settings'.
Gerrit
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