From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wgreenhouse-sGOZH3hwPm2sTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org (W. Greenhouse) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Defining session for emacs as mutt editor Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:28:29 +0000 Message-ID: <87fvzajeb6.fsf@riseup.net> References: <87a9pvbjz8.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364840936 30948 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2013 18:28:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 18:28:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Mon Apr 01 20:29:21 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 1UMjTm-0003w3-LM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:29:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMjTO-0006xS-3G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:28:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMjT6-0006tI-10 for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMjT2-0005fe-7M for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:32897) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMjT1-0005fO-Vg for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:28:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UMjTJ-0003gG-Hp for help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:28:45 +0200 Original-Received: from exit-01c.noisetor.net ([173.254.216.68]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:28:45 +0200 Original-Received: from wgreenhouse by exit-01c.noisetor.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:28:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-dbVV3NMTNubNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: exit-01c.noisetor.net X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PCChF6MoP5Xij8vUG+Xszh4QyRI= 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-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.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-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89864 Archived-At: 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="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 Have you tried this with an existing GUI Emacs frame and mutt's editor as "emacsclient"? This should cause the emacsclient buffer to pop up inside the extant GUI frame, and maybe your mutt messages wouldn't get buried. (Untested, not a mutt user, just an idea.) Best, Will -- BOFH excuse #349: Stray Alpha Particles from memory packaging caused Hard Memory Error on Server.