On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:22:17PM +0000, debian wrote: > Please, > > This may be a niave question: > > I have stipulated xemacs as my editor. Fine, but every time I create > or edit a message, mutt fires up a fresh invocation of xemacs. This > takes time. > > How can mutt make use of an already running copy of xemacs ? Can > xemacs be treated as a kind of server ? Yes. See the XEmacs documentation for the gnuserv-start function, and the gnuserv(1) manpage. Richard