On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 01:10:14PM +0100, Gunther Kuhlmann muttered:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
>
> > -> 1.) what does emacs vs emacs client mean? I read that I must run
> > emacs
> > -> and mutt on the same host.. I don't understand the overall picture
> > -> with this. Why/how is this different from specifying Pico in the
> > -> .muttrc file? What is a server? I had to include some lines in my
> > -> .emacs file about that.
> >
> > Sigh, methinks this is a candidate for a Mutt FAQ, even though it is an
> > Emacs issue.
> >
> > Emacs is a big, fat program, and susceptible to a lot of
> > customization. With all that, it can take a while to load ("Emacs Makes
> > Any Computer Slower"). It is simpler, and the Emacs Way, to leave Emacs
> > running during your session. To allow Mutt and other programs to feed
> > files to Emacs for editing, use emacsclient instead. So in your .muttrc,
> > specify emacsclient as your editor, not emacs. When you go to edit an
> > email, emacsclient will feed the file to an already running instance of
> > emacs (it will not launch emacs for you). When you are done, hit C-x #,
> > and move your focus back to mutt.
> >
> > In this scheme of things, emacs is an editor server, and emacsclient
> > lets
> > mutt and other programs be clients of the server.
> >
> > You have to set this up in your .emacs. Because I run the same .emacs on
> > several different OSs, I have the following in my .emacs (which, BTW, is
> > posted on my web site):
>
> > If you don't need the portability, this will do:
> >
> >
> > (server-start)
>
> I am currently starting xemacs for each mail I write (from mutt). So
> I added (server-start) into my .emacs file, but it came up with the
> following error:
>
> Signaling: (void-function server-start)
> (server-start)
> )
> load-internal("~/.emacs" t t t undecided)
> load("~/.emacs" t t t)
> load-user-init-file("")
> load-init-file()
> command-line()
> normal-top-level()
>
> What am I doing wrong? Do I need to install something which is missing?
> (I hope this is not too OT.)
Possibly what you are doing wrong is using Xemacs. :-) I have never used
it, but I know that there are differences between Xemacs and Emacs. For
aught I know, this is one of them. Somewhere there should be an Xemacs
list where you can ask.
If you do get it working correctly, would you please post the correct code
here for other folks' reference.
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