From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 22 and slrn Date: 29 Aug 2007 14:41:55 GMT Organization: Westinghouse Electric Company Message-ID: References: Reply-To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188402047 23437 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2007 15:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:40:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 29 17:40:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IQPeo-0004eE-8U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQPen-0006cd-PD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Cx46GMdUNZ3CvsYQDTaL4QUr9/8EMy+8gOuiretTk/mSC2K0yY Cancel-Lock: sha1:aOfCM2PJr1V3O1GJmAoQVk9zCEw= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Win32) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151403 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46925 Archived-At: 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