On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:42:48PM +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > > What is the advantage of running mutt within emacs?
Short answer: You don't have to navigate to Emacs (server) when editing a message. Longer answer: I have my Mutt editor set to "emacsclient" and I have Emacs' server running. If I were to edit a message in a non-Emacs environment I'd have to travel to Emacs to modify the message. So, if I run screen I would change to the screen that Emacs was running on, if I am in a GUI environment I'd need to switch to a different window. If you have your mutt editor set to "emacs" then there's no need to do any of this, Emacs should pop up when you edit a message. But then, you could have multiple copies of Emacs running, whereas with the server/client arrangement there is only one instance of Emacs. There should also be a time savings in opening a client versus a new instance of Emacs. -- Monte
