Defining session for emacs as mutt editor

[Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>]

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