On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:01:03PM -0400, Monte Stevens wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:42:48PM +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > > > > What is the advantage of running mutt within emacs? > > Short answer: > You don't have to navigate to Emacs (server) when editing a message. > > Longer answer: > I have my Mutt editor set to "emacsclient" and I have Emacs' server > running. If I were to edit a message in a non-Emacs environment I'd > have to travel to Emacs to modify the message. So, if I run screen I > would change to the screen that Emacs was running on, if I am in a GUI > environment I'd need to switch to a different window. > > If you have your mutt editor set to "emacs" then there's no need to do > any of this, Emacs should pop up when you edit a message. But then, you > could have multiple copies of Emacs running, whereas with the > server/client arrangement there is only one instance of Emacs. There > should also be a time savings in opening a client versus a new instance > of Emacs. > By the way, and *just* for information, you can do the same with a vi look alike too - [x]vile. So if (like me) you're a died in the wool vi person you can run a 'vi server'. The one I use is (as I said) [x]vile but I *think* you can do it with vim as well.
-- Chris Green
