On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:43 pm, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi guys, > > Ever since i started using Linux, i have routinely been switching > between mutt, mozilla mail, and (more recently), evolution. Anyway, > i kind of like mutt a lot, but i have a few questions/concerns about > it: > > 1) Using mutt in X. Mutt is really really ugly in an xterm (or at > least i think it is), is there any fonts or other ways of running > mutt that work better for people (i don't really like to run it in > the console because my browser and everything is in X).
You can try changing your xterm fonts. I use the following settings (add to ~/.Xresources): XTerm*font: 9x15 XTerm*scrollBar: true XTerm*saveLines: 1000 Or try another terminal emulator (rxvt, konsole, Eterm, etc.) > 2) This one i should probably be able to figure out myself, but i > want to compose my messages in mutt w/ my already-running emacs. I > know about the 'VISUAL' option in the muttrc, but that doesn't really > seem to work for me (when i try to reply to a message, it wouldn't > quote the message inside the editor IIRC, and it started a new emacs > instead of using the one already running (same goes for mozilla)). Err, yeah, there's a way to run Emacs as a client/server. I think you start the original Emacs with something like "emacs -f server-start", and then you set your editor in mutt to "emacsclient" and it'll use the server process. It's been a while since I've done this though. But, if you're really serious about using Emacs as your editor, you'll eventually move to gnus as your mail/news reader anyway. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
