From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris McMahan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 22 and slrn Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:41:52 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188398450 9877 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2007 14:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:40:50 +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 16:40:44 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 1IQOij-0004QQ-4r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQOig-0006n9-Il for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1188394910 19556 166.84.1.5 (29 Aug 2007 13:41:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:41:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tx0GB+aqN3X3yCyAmI5hN3qveDs= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151398 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:46919 Archived-At: I would recommend you use either Gnuserv with Gnuclient, or emacsclient to invoke the currently running instance of emacs instead. I've been using gnuserv and gnuclientw for years with no problems (albeit not with slrn), and it has "served" me well. http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2007/01/emacs-hack-2-manage-emacs-instances-with-gnuserv.ashx http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ntemacs-users/message/12487 http://www2.odn.ne.jp/piyokun/emacs/gnuserv.htm - Chris wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons) writes: > 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? > > (Of course, a regular invocation of Emacs 22 outside of slrn works fine.) > > Emacs version is: 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) > of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE > > - Will -- (. .) =ooO=(_)=Ooo===================================== Chris McMahan | first_initiallastname@one.dot.net =================================================