[Users] Claws completely frozen after the external editor exited

Francis Moreau francis.moro at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 20:52:14 CEST 2015


On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Charles Curley
<charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:34:18 +0200
> Francis Moreau <francis.moro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> sorry forgot the cut&paste ;)
>>
>> the command to start the external editor is "urxvt -e emacs-nox %s"
>
> You should not launch a separate emacs for each document you want to
> edit. Instead, launch an instance of emacs, and use that as a server.
> The client here is emacsclient. Invoke it from clawsmail like so:
>
> emacsclient '%s'
>

I should be able to use any editor I wish, and nowadays I really don't
see any issues in launching emacs for editing an email on my computer
with 16GB RAM, quad core i7 etc...

-- 
Francis



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