Re: emacs -nw as external editor

[Eddy Mulyono <eddymulyono mail com>]

Heiko Gerdau wrote:
> On Saturday 03 January 2004 07:55, Eddy Mulyono wrote:
>
> > I wanted to use emacs as mc's external editor. But I prefer having the
> > non-X interface that is invoked with "-nw".
> >
> > I have managed to change my EDITOR to "/usr/bin/emacs -nw", since `echo
> > ${EDITOR}` gives me "/usr/bin/emacs -nw".
> >
> > When i started mc, and tried to invoke the editor with [F4], emacs is
> > not executed. mc appeared to try to execute it (similar effect achieved
> > when pressing C-o), and the cursor goes to top-left of the terminal
> > (0,0), but it immediately returns to mc's panels.
> >
> > Note that without the -nw switch, mc was able to invoke emacs. So I
> > guess the -nw switch breaks things... :p
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
>
> as a workaround you could call a bash script in $EDITOR to envoke emacs 
> with -nw.
> That works for me.

Works for me, too! Thanx!

-Eddy