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.

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.

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