Re: questions about mutt
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:15:39AM +0000, Glyn Millington wrote:
> Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com> writes:
>
> > Err, yeah, there's a way to run Emacs as a client/server. I think you
> > start the original Emacs with something like "emacs -f server-start",
> > and then you set your editor in mutt to "emacsclient" and it'll use the
> > server process. It's been a while since I've done this though.
>
> You can also do this from .emacs, IIRC. (server-start) ? Sorry I don't
> use Gnu EMacs nowadays.
>
> The other really nice add-on for mutt/slrn with the emacsen is post.el !
> Put it in your load-path, compile it and put (require 'post) in .emacs.
> It gives you message highlighting, quote-stripping, selectable signatures
> and a variety of other useful functions.
>
> http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/mutt/
>
> It makes mail/news without Gnus just about bearable - but only just!
Is there actually any advantage to using post-mode over message-mode,
other than having some magic that autoloads when composing with mutt?
Assuming, of course, you're not using an older emacsen that doesn't
bundle gnus and hence message-mode.
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