On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:12:54AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > [snip]
> I'm migrating from emacs RMAIL to mutt and liking it (mutt) more and > more. Within mutt, I have the editor set to emacs. But I always have > emacs running anyway, so there's an annoying duplication when mutt > starts its own emacs session. Is there any way to cause mutt to use an > already running emacs as its editor? Sure is. Put this in your .emacs ;;; Load gnuserv, which will allow you to connect to XEmacs sessions ;;; using `gnuclient'. ;; If you never run more than one XEmacs at a time, you might want to ;; always start gnuserv. Otherwise it is preferable to specify ;; `-f gnuserv-start' on the command line to one of the XEmacsen. ;;; Reuse existing xemacs by starting server. ;;; Use existing frame not a new one. (gnuserv-start) ;;;(setq gnuserv-frame t) Add this to your .muttrc set editor="gnuclient" Jonathan
