mutt and the running emacs

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

This is really a mutt question rather than a debian question, but
there seem to be a lot of mutt wizards on this list, so I'll risk it.

I've read what's available in /usr/share/doc/mutt and at the mutt
site, but can't find the answer to this question:

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?

(I'm using version 1.2.5 in stable.)

Thanks very much for any advice,

Jim McCloskey