Re: Defining session for emacs as mutt editor

[Mark Skilbeck <m@iammark.us>]

Unfortunately Mutt "blacks-out" its display until the editor process
terminates.

- mgsk

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 06:28:29PM +0000, W. Greenhouse wrote:
> Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:
> 
> > I want to have mutt (which is started from terminal) use emacs as its
> > editor with its own initialization file. So in .muttrc I put:
> >
> >   set editor="emacs -q -l ~/.emacsMutt"
> >
> > This defines an emacs session located on right half of my screen. My
> > objective is to have the editor displayed to right of screen and the
> > mutt messages remain displayed to its left.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Haines Brown
> 
> Have you tried this with an existing GUI Emacs frame and mutt's editor
> as "emacsclient"?  This should cause the emacsclient buffer to pop up
> inside the extant GUI frame, and maybe your mutt messages wouldn't get
> buried.  (Untested, not a mutt user, just an idea.)
> 
> Best,
> Will
> 
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