Re: mutt, gnome terminal, xemacs, gnuserv, debian etch

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>]

Hendrik Mangels wrote:
> Russell L. Harris (2006-10-28, 18:21):
> > I wish to use xemacs as the editor for mutt, with mutt running
> > in gnome terminal on a Debian etch i386 system.
>
> http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#editor
>
> Hendrik

Thanks, Hendrik.

In "~/.bashrc" I put the line:

    export EDITOR=/usr/bin/xemacs

Now mutt starts xemacs after I enter a subject for the message, but when
I save the message and exit xemacs, mutt treats the text of the message
as an attachment, rather than as an integral part of the e-mail.

According to The Linux Mail User HOWTO, section 2.1, "Setting your mail
editor", I need to set EDITOR to the value "gnuclient" and put the
following two lines into "~/.xemacs/init.el":

    (autoload 'server-edit "server" nil t)
    (server-edit)

But that doesn't seem to work.  I am confused.

RLH