Re: [h-e-w] Emacs as external editor for Thunderbird - problem with gnuclientw/gnuserv

[Lennart Borgman]

Brian Elmegaard wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have found the Thunderbird External Editor Extension on
> http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2 and it works fine if I set
> the editor to emacs. 
>
> However, I would like it use gnuclientw instead, so it would open an
> existing emacs frame. This also works; I can click it in thunderbird
> and get a mail-buffer in my emacs, but for some reason emacs does not
> find out that it has been started by an external editor.
> gnuserv-edit gives:
> if: (gnuserv-edit): Use only on buffers created by external programs.
>
> and gnuserv-done then doesn't work.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> tia,
>  
I am not sure, but did you use the new gnuclientw.exe? In that case did 
you use the wait flag (-w if I do not misremember)?