From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 7: 4:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842C314D37 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:04:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991130210255.39078@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:02:55 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Michael Elbel , Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <19991126095558.C48221@consol.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19991126095558.C48221@consol.de>; from Michael Elbel on Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 09:55:58AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 26 November 1999 at 9:55:58 +0100, Michael Elbel wrote: > In lists.freebsd.questions you write: > >> BTW Greg, you mentioned that you use emacs for composing e-mail with >> mutt, which is what I'm doing now. Is there a way to make it (mutt) >> open another buffer in an emacs window that's already running rather >> than starting another instance of emacs? > > You sure it was Greg? Well, I believe it :-) I'm sure we're not the only two who use mutt and Emacs. > I've mentioned this before: > > Set your editor to gnuclient and it will do what you want > (export EDITOR=gnuclient). > You can also do this on the commandline, of course > > $ gnuclient /etc/passwd > > You need to load gnuserv in your .emacs file. This is what I have in mine: > > (load-library "gnuserv") > (gnuserv-start nil) OK, what does this buy you? It's relatively easy to tell Emacs to edit something from outside, but how do you get mutt to wait until you've finished editing the message, and how to you tell mutt when you have finished? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message