Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!mustang!data.nas.nasa.gov!sun418!truesdel From: truesdel@nas.nasa.gov (David A. Truesdell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Novice question about editing messages Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 91 06:06:12 GMT References: <9103311147.AA22382%caligula@ansa.co.uk> <1991Apr10.230215.21858@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Lines: 25 khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera) writes: >In article jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes: > Can someone post the standard explanation for why this doesn't work with > GNU Emacs? I've seen obscure references to this problem, but never the > full explanation. And it's not in the FAQ yet. :-( > Several of my users have complained about this not working. Since I don't > use MH myself, I've never figured it out. :-) >works for us. SunOS 4.1, MH 6.7.1. it has worked since MH 6.5 and >SunOS 3.5. emacs version is 18.55. we don't supply the full pathname >to emacs, just "Editor: emacs" works fine. i've never heard that >this was a problem before (in 6 years of using MH...) You must have missed his followup, he mentioned that the users in question were using Xmh. From what I remember (I don't use it myself) Xmh does not allow you to specify an alternate editor. You're stuck with what Xmh provides. -- T.T.F.N., dave truesdell (truesdel@nas.nasa.gov) Ita erat quando hic adventi.