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

[Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>]

Russell L. Harris wrote:

> 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

I haven't followed your thread at all but maybe this will help

set editor="/usr/bin/emacs -nw -l .emacs.mutt"

from my .muttrc note the following:

-nw specifies a cli version of emacs as opposed to a windowed version.

-l .emacs.mutt loads my emacs configuration for use with mutt, but I
leave that for you to figure out.

hth

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