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

[Steven W. Orr]

On Wednesday, Jan 11th 2006 at 01:30 -0500, quoth Ken D'Ambrosio:

=>A sad, sad truth that I've come to accept is that I have PINE's keystrokes
=>emblazoned in my memory.  I use it at least once a year, whether I need to
=>or not, and I never even have to pause.  They keystrokes are just THERE.
=>I tried MUTT.  No dice.  Never was a big ELM fan.  And GUIs are certainly
=>nice, but sometimes text based is the way to fly.
=>
=>Ironically, however, I really hate PICO.
=>
=>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.

I have this in my emacs init

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.txt\\'\\|^/tmp/pico" . text-mode))

Combine this with using emacsclient by adding this to your init

(server-start)

And then just tell pine to use emacsclient. BTW, emacslient is the way to 
go. I have an emacs initialization that's over 200K and the machines are 
getting faster but on my last box with Athlon 1600's it took a couple of 
seconds. emacsclient is instantaneous.


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