Emacs & PINE -- "perfect together." [Don't hurt me!]

[Jeff Kinz]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:30:50AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> So I've set up Emacs as my default editor.  Nice.  But the one problem I
> have is that I'd really like to have Emacs do column-77 wordwrap if -- and
> only if -- it's invoked from PINE.  I have zilch idea how to invoke this
> from the command line, and don't know enough about Emacs (I dabble, I don't
> "use") to do it any of the other ways.
> 
> Suggestions on which approach?  I've Googled, to no avail, but I know that
> there are some Emacs die-hards out there, and would be glad to follow their
> sagacious advice.


set your pine editor to "pineedit" which would be a shell script like this:

#!/bin/sh
touch $1
chmod 600 $1
exec emacsclient <options for text wrapping> $1

Where emacsclient is whatever form of emacs invocation you need for 
your environment, like are you in X-windows?  Do you want Xemacs or do
you want an xterm with emacs running in it.. etc...


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