Subject: using emacs as alternate editor

From: [email-masked] (Larry S. Dare)
Date: 5 Mar 1997 23:46:28 GMT

am trying to use emacs as my alternate editor in pine.
What I get is the message "Invoking Alternate Editor..."
then nothing.
If I stop the process, I can see that an emacs process was indeed
started.  If I kill that process, then pine comes back.

Any thoughts on getting this to work????

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Larry S. Dare
[email-masked]
http://www.seattleu.edu/~ldare/homepage.html

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:48:54 +0100 (CET)

On 5 Mar 1997, Larry S. Dare wrote:

  > am trying to use emacs as my alternate editor in pine. What I get is the
  >message "Invoking Alternate Editor..." then nothing. If I stop the
  >process, I can see that an emacs process was indeed started. If I kill
  >that process, then pine comes back.
  >

Yeah. Start an X session before running emacs or invoke it with the -nw
option.

BTW, it took me 5 minutes to figure it out how to leave that (/%$$%/ program
after I couldn't kill the process. I positively hate you this morning.

Cheers,
Robin

  Robin S. Socha	  | Bonner Talweg 56  | Tel:   +49 228 22217-8
  Political Science Dept. | 53113 Bonn        | Fax:   +49 228 22217-9
  Bonn University  	  | Germany           | email: [email-masked]

       On the package it said: "Requires MS Windows 3.11 or better"  
	       			      ...  so I got myself Linux.

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 9 Mar 1997 00:56:25 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Cliff Green  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>I've put the following entry in my .mailcap file, but to no good effect:
>application/wordperfect; wp %s; needsterminal; copiousoutput
>
>Actually, when I do that, pine sez:  
>[Don't know how to display Application/WORDPERFECT attachments. Try Save.]
>
>And now for the Famous Plea:  So what am I doing wrong?

I seem to recall someone once complaining about pine treating the 
entries in .mailcap as case sensitive. So it may be that you have 
rediscovered a bug in pine.

Greetings,
Ørjan (Who would be happy to be corrected about this.)