Re: Emacs 22 and slrn

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Will Parsons wrote:
> I use the slrn newsreader on Windows XP to read newsgroups and have
> configured it to use Emacs for the editor to use when posting messages.
> The following has been working fine in the slrn configuration file:
> 
> set editor_command "c:/emacs-21.3/bin/emacs +%d %s"
> 
> This causes a separate invocation of Emacs to be created (I usually have
> another long-term Emacs session already started), and after closing out the
> session returns to slrn where the message is posted.
> 
> Now I'm trying to transition to Emacs 22, but using:
> 
> set editor_command "c:/emacs-22.1/bin/emacs +%d %s"
> 
> doesn't work.  What happens is that an instance of Emacs is created but
> hangs with an hourglass.  Ctrl-g has no effect, and I am forced to close it
> forcefully from Windows.  I've looked thru the Emacs News for Emacs 22 but
> don't see any obvious change in the startup to account for for this.  Any
> ideas?

I have no answer to this, but why are you invoking a new instance of 
Emacs instead of using Emacs client?