[gnu.emacs.bug] Running gnuemacs with mh-6.6

wjj@SUN-VALLEY.STANFORD.EDU (Warren Jasper) (03/20/89)

    I am currently running gnuemacs on a Sun 3 using OS 3.5.  Since not
all the people on my system use emacs, we have installed mh-6.6 to handle
mail.  The problem is that when my .mh_profile file is a follows:

Path: Mail
Editor: gnuemacs
Prompter-Next: gnuemacs
Folder-Protect: 700
Msg-Protect: 600
Comp:	-form Mail.skel
Compac:	-form Action.skel
Dist:	-annotate -inplace
Forw:	-annotate -inplace -format  -form Forw.skel
Repl:	-annotate -inplace -nocc cc -nocc me -fcc ORIGINALS
	-filter Reply_Filter

the program "comp" hangs.  I have done a "ps" and it shows:

comp
gnuemacs /home/wjj/Mail/draft

but nothig happens.  All our other editors (vi, Unipress emacs, textedit) 
work fine with comp.  Could you tell me how to get guemacs to work with mh
also? I know that emacs has rmail, but I wanted to understand why I could
not get mh and gnuemacs to work.

Thanks,

Warren  Jasper
wjj@sun-valley.stanford.edu

wohler@SPAM.ISTC.SRI.COM (Bill Wohler) (03/20/89)

heya,

  gnuemacs also has mh-rmail which is the Right Way to use gnuemacs
  and mh.  it's hot.

  try mh-rmail and then type "C-h m" to see what commands you have
  available.  then type "s" to send a letter and then type "C-h m"
  again to see what commands you have available while editing a letter
  (including "C-c C-q" to quit editing that letter).  that should
  provide you with enough documentation but you can find out more
  by looking at the sources (...gnuemacs/lisp/mh-e.el).

  by the way, in your example, you set the editor to be "gnuemacs."
  it is preferable (read mega-faster) to set it to emacsclient and run
  "M-x server-start" within gnuemacs.  try that sometime, run
  server-start, and then run emacsclient directly from the shell.

  enjoy!

							--bw