Re: console mutt emacs problem
Lance Hoffmeyer <lanceh@ibm.net> writes:
LH> I have a problem using emacs inside of mutt. This has just
LH> occured recently. If I try to write an email in mutt the editor
LH> is emacs. When I try is now it locks up the console. I have to
LH> use 'kill' to free it up again. I can, however, open mutt up
LH> through a window in X and get emacs to work as I am doing now.
LH> Any idea how to fix this?
(Guessing) Is the DISPLAY environment variable set, and does it point
to a valid X display? If so, Emacs will, by default, start up on the
X display so referenced, and Mutt will most likely sit around doing
absolutely nothing (and being non-responsive) until Emacs returns.
Try unsetting $DISPLAY, or running 'emacs -nw' to force a tty-mode
Emacs.
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