From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: XeCycle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Defining session for emacs as mutt editor Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:43:35 +0800 Message-ID: <871ub6v4c8.fsf@xc.laptop> References: <87a9pvbjz8.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364033724 18209 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2013 10:15:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:15:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 23 11:15:49 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 1UJLUJ-0003t5-BS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:15:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55341 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJLTv-0001q7-MR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJLTj-0001pT-Oz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJLTi-0004zQ-OQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJLTi-0004zJ-HQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:15:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UJLU4-0003ho-FE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:15:32 +0100 Original-Received: from 59.78.37.25 ([59.78.37.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:15:32 +0100 Original-Received: from XeCycle by 59.78.37.25 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:15:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.78.37.25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:D5hWTNm0U4aCfsPHpHd1BxSjMlQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:89681 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D"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. =2D-=20 Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRTXlKAAoJEI1xjsR3leWRXoIIAKWSNpybxhS125HCDoAcgDsh ZAYnHRX/Zh2wI/kyLzCwYbNVffyehCTHrjZBo2x3hpFxkwk51B7zmei8HLCdWq6d vJvDqo09fHPpjBPj3DISqbHwHSgEiRvo0TpfxPjtmdQoyxZw3DRDis/GKnwT1GP+ JdWO/RxoFBahGcJtUiFUiPyM+G+CMH7LSsGImjjrzSx5YF+53f0q2M4errnwOkio 4YqFxDVFYM+9z4RcPcdjA51CKH+F0DQttOVadGEiNbLO7SqErSK5P4AU592CimeW n4GmbU7XGEXL56tRK0GoNgeC7b76NrKgUvseLIpc8LKcoQinEMIozovdysQSRok= =Bjp8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--