From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 22 and slrn Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:48:57 +0200 Message-ID: <46D57949.2060704@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188395394 30658 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2007 13:49:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:49:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 29 15:49:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IQNvZ-0002Dq-7X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:49:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQNvZ-0001Tt-2h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:49:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IQNvK-0001SR-RJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IQNvK-0001RW-6o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQNvJ-0001RT-WE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IQNvJ-00068F-Ad for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:49:33 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:62551 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IQNvH-0002YO-4I; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:49:32 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000769-1, 2007-08-28), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IQNvH-0002YO-4I. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1IQNvH-0002YO-4I 76dd5b742acf6b8ce38bf4d4cb099385 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46917 Archived-At: 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?