Re: Emacs 22 and slrn

[wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons)]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Will Parsons wrote:
>> I use the slrn newsreader on Windows XP to read newsgroups and have
>> configured it to use Emacs for the editor to use when posting messages.
>> The following has been working fine in the slrn configuration file:
>> 
>> set editor_command "c:/emacs-21.3/bin/emacs +%d %s"
>> 
>> This causes a separate invocation of Emacs to be created (I usually have
>> another long-term Emacs session already started), and after closing out the
>> session returns to slrn where the message is posted.
>> 
>> Now I'm trying to transition to Emacs 22, but using:
>> 
>> set editor_command "c:/emacs-22.1/bin/emacs +%d %s"
>> 
>> doesn't work.  What happens is that an instance of Emacs is created but
>> hangs with an hourglass.  Ctrl-g has no effect, and I am forced to close it
>> forcefully from Windows.  I've looked thru the Emacs News for Emacs 22 but
>> don't see any obvious change in the startup to account for for this.  Any
>> ideas?
> 
> I have no answer to this, but why are you invoking a new instance of 
> Emacs instead of using Emacs client?
> 
I've never felt the need for using emacsclient before - firing up an
instance of Emacs for the relatively few times I post to a newsgroup has
always worked fine for me.  But, since I've now been encouraged to use
emacsclient from two sources, I've given it a try and it seems to work fine.

- Will