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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>
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In-reply-to: davem@gonzo.ETA.COM (Dave Marquardt)

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
-- 
	   "What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking
	   and thinking...and suddenly you wake up."   - Hobbes

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