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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defining session for emacs as mutt editor
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 01:53:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130331235326.GL16145@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ub6v4c8.fsf@xc.laptop>

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 05:43:35PM +0800, XeCycle wrote:
> Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:
> 
> > However, when the emacsMutt window starts, the mutt messages window is
> > replaced by an empty emacs window, and as the result I no longer see the
> > mutt messages. An -nw option only makes the emacsMutt session full
> > screen.
> 
> Exactly why I switched to Gnus.  Mutt won't show other messages
> while editing, by design.
> 
> A way to workaround is to start another Mutt read-only, IIRC -R.
> Yet you still need to navigate to the specific mail again.

I do it by using notmuch to index my emails and access them with the
Emacs interface for notmuch.  Works great, I can even link to emails
from my Org mode files!

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-31 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-22 14:13 Defining session for emacs as mutt editor Haines Brown
2013-03-22 21:35 ` Bob Proulx
2013-03-23  9:43 ` XeCycle
2013-03-31 23:53   ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.23192.1364774017.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-04-01 11:58     ` Haines Brown
2013-04-02 18:55       ` Suvayu Ali
     [not found]       ` <mailman.23325.1364928968.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-04-03 10:32         ` Haines Brown
2013-04-04 20:30           ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]           ` <mailman.23551.1365107426.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-04-05 10:03             ` Haines Brown
2013-04-01 18:28 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-04-01 18:43   ` Mark Skilbeck
2013-04-01 18:57     ` W. Greenhouse

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