Re: emacs or mutt ?

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Sun, Mar 10 2019, Philippe Delavalade wrote:
> Le dimanche 10 mars à 17:16, Joost Kremers a écrit :
>>    set editor = emacsclient
>> 
>> (I used emacsclient, which I preferred, but it should work with 
>> "set editor
>> = emacs" as well).
>
> I tried but it didn't solved the problem. mutt refused to open 
> the buffer
> and quit :-(

That's probably because emacsclient requires a running Emacs to 
attach to. You'd need to read about using Emacs as a server in the 
manual:

<https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html>

>> The best way to do this, I think, is to use `auto-mode-alist`. 
>> Put this in
>> ~/.emacs.d/init.el:
>> 
>>    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist 
>>    '("mutt-[a-z0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+.*\\'" .
>> message-mode))
>
> I had no file ~/.emac.d/init.el

Like tomas already indicated, that's a typo, it should be 
~/.emacs.d/init.el. Furthermore, if you already have a ~/.emacs 
file, ~/.emacs.d/init.el isn't going to be read anyway.

> So I created it and wrote your line but it produces no effect.
>
> Finally I put the line in .emacs and now I have what I want. I 
> replaced
> message-mode with text-mode because I don't know at all this 
> mode but I
> will try it later.

It's Gnu's major mode for messages. In combination with mutt, it's 
mainly useful for fontification. Some of the keybindings won't 
work, because they expect Gnus to be running.

-- 
Joost Kremers
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