From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Skilbeck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Defining session for emacs as mutt editor Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 19:43:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20130401184339.GB31317@earth> References: <87a9pvbjz8.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> <87fvzajeb6.fsf@riseup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364841838 6926 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2013 18:43:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 18:43:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "W. Greenhouse" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 01 20:44:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UMjiR-0003Fz-32 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:44:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMji2-0003iG-JX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:43:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45510) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMjhr-0003i9-2O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:43:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMjhm-0002cv-N7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:fedf:c65b] (port=46425 helo=mail.iammark.us) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMjhm-0002ch-HW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.iammark.us (host86-156-209-251.range86-156.btcentralplus.com [86.156.209.251]) by mail.iammark.us (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E2A62AF01; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 19:43:40 +0100 (BST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87fvzajeb6.fsf@riseup.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:fedf:c65b X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89865 Archived-At: 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 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 > > -- > BOFH excuse #349: > > Stray Alpha Particles from memory packaging caused Hard Memory Error on > Server. >