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Article #3334Re: Emacs and rn
From: Nate Hess
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 1988 13:59
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 1988 13:59
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In article <704@nic.MR.NET>, davem@gonzo (Dave Marquardt) writes:
>In article <23050@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
>>oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>>> [Stuff about having to wait when kicking up a new emacs each time the
>>> editor is called from "rn".]
>>Look in your emacs/etc directory for emacsclient.c and server.c, then
>>check over lisp/server.el. Essentially, in your .emacs, include
>> (server-start)
>>and set your $EDITOR to "emacsclient." Poof, you're done.
>Well, that's fine, if you've already got your emacs started.
How can you even think of being logged in to a Unix system and *not*
have an emacs started?!? Gack.
An even nicer solution to your problem is so use Gnews, instead of rn.
Gnews implements a news reader very similar to rn inside of Emacs, with
all the advantages theretoforthwitheth. Gnews is quite usable even if
you're an Emacs novice; I have gotten people who had been using rn for
less than a week up and running with Gnews under GNU Emacs with
absolutely no pain. When you do a followup or a reply to an article,
the reply buffer is ready for your text in about the time it takes to
blink...
Happy Gnewsing!
--woodstock
--
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and thinking...and suddenly you wake up." - Hobbes
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!littlei!omepd!mipos3!nate From: nate@mipos2.intel.com (Nate Hess) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Emacs and rn Summary: Try Gnews Keywords: rn Gnews Message-ID: <2963@mipos3.intel.com> Date: 3 Oct 88 13:59:40 GMT References: <26282@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <23050@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <704@nic.MR.NET> Sender: news@mipos3.intel.com Reply-To: woodstock@sc.intel.com (Nate Hess) Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 33 In-reply-to: davem@gonzo.ETA.COM (Dave Marquardt)