Rob Reid proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>emulates emacs very well and has a scripting language, but still starts up and
>exits very quickly, so no client/server stuff is necessary. It also has color
>syntax highlighting in a tty, unlike GNU emacs.
What's wrong with vim? ;)
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Hi,
At 3:52 PM EDT on June 1 Manuel Arriaga sent off:
> Unfortunately I tried it without success; I put
>
> #!/bin/sh
> emacs -f server-start &
>
> into my ~/.profile (I just found out that my shell is called "bash"... :-)
> and logged in again, but I get an error message saying
>
> emacs: s
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 08:52:02PM +0100, Manuel Arriaga wrote:
-> Hi Mikko,
->
-> Thanks for the tip!
->
-> > This is pretty basic unix stuff, but I guess you have to learn it from
-> > somewhere. :-) Put a & at the end of the (or any) command line, to put
-> > that command in "background". e
Hi Charles,
Didn't work either...
I will have a look at the newsgroups! :-)
Bye,
Manuel
> Try it without the shebang line (#!/bin/sh). Bash executes the script
> itself, so you should not have a call to another shell process.
>
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 08:59:07PM +0100, Manuel Arriaga wrote:
-> Hi Charles,
->
-> Thank you for replying. And sorry everyone for posting my reply in two different
emails... :-)
->
->
-> But that is precisely the kind of behaviour I am getting (by running emacs -f
server-start on one tty
Hi Mikko,
Thanks for the tip!
> This is pretty basic unix stuff, but I guess you have to learn it from
> somewhere. :-) Put a & at the end of the (or any) command line, to put
> that command in "background". eg.
>
> emacs -f server-start &
(...)
> Sure. This depends on which shell you're u
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 09:23:38AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> There is another way to do this, I believe. I seem to recall a tool that
> lets you launch a program into a given virtual console. Then you can
> switch between mutt and emacs by toggling virtual consoles, which I
> believe was your
Mikko & Manuel --
...and then Mikko Hänninen said...
% Manuel Arriaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 01 Jun 2000:
%
% > how can I run the server without tying up a
% > virtual console?
%
% emacs -f server-start &
Yep; that will do it.
%
% > Is it possible to automatically start a "serv
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 05:55:45PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
-> Manuel Arriaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 01 Jun 2000:
-> > emacs -f server-start
->
-> > how can I run the server without tying up a
-> > virtual console?
->
-> This is pretty basic unix stuff, but I guess you have to lea
Manuel Arriaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 01 Jun 2000:
> emacs -f server-start
> how can I run the server without tying up a
> virtual console?
This is pretty basic unix stuff, but I guess you have to learn it from
somewhere. :-) Put a & at the end of the (or any) command line, to put
th
Hi everyone,
I am trying to follow the advice I was given when I first joined the list, and *not*
use emacs as my editor, which seems a really good advice because each time mutt needs
to launch it (on my ageing laptop) it takes quite a while. So I decided to give
emacsclient a try, and ran
em
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