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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Reading usenet inside Emacs
Message-ID: <8740@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 04:13:39 GMT
References: <7651@alice.UUCP> <8801241916.AA23663@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <203@rtg.cme-durer.ARPA> <208@stylus.cme-durer.ARPA>
Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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Keywords: news rnews seeking improvements

In article <208@stylus.cme-durer.ARPA> klm@cme-durer.ARPA (Ken Manheimer) writes:
>... and would like to see a more
>worthwhile news reading facility in the editor that i could use;
>otherwise i'll stick to rn for news reading.

The method that I use which isn't quite what you asked is pretty helpful
for me.  I alias rn to be "EDITOR=/usr/local/emacs/etc/emacsclient /usr/bin/rn"
and then I have server.elc automatically run from my .emacs.  Then
when I want to respond to news, I just hit ^Z when it says that it's
waiting for emacs.  Then I type "fe" which is an alias to put emacs in
the foreground (assuming you have job control).  And after a few
seconds, the file pops up.  It's pretty obvious that this method
only works with job control.

I've also used the technique combined with Berkeley "rcp" to edit
files on other machines using the emacs on my host machine.  In
fact, if I connect to a machine using M-x telnet, then I can
type "re <file>" which will pull up the file in my own local
emacs.  "re" is a shellscript that rcp's the file to my host, then
runs emacsclient on it, then rcp's the file back.  I'm working on
a different method and I'll probably get that done soon.  

If there's any interest, I'll post it.

-MikeP