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Re: lynx-dev How to spawn an independent emacs window with the webpage i
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Re: lynx-dev How to spawn an independent emacs window with the webpage in it? (fwd) |
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Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:49:56 -0500 (EST) |
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I saw this the first time, but (I don't use emacs, don't have it on my
home machine) don't know the answer.
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> Subject: How to spawn an independent emacs window with the webpage in it?
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> How to spawn an independent emacs window with the webpage in it?
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> I need some assistance regarding a basic question in lynx. In the
> options I have emacs as my editor so that when I press e in a page,
> the emacs window is spawned on top of the lynx window in the X
> environment. The lynx window, however, goes blank. I want them to be
> working simultaneously. The solution is to spawn emacs in the
> background. For this I put an ampersand, which makes the two
> independent. The problem is that the emacs window is a scratch
> buffer. I need to find out the variable that contains the page
> name. Many people, I am sure have found out how to do this and can
> someone drop an explanation and also some more good customisation
> ideas that they really enjoyed using during their experience with
> lynx?
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> Also the emacs that is spawned in the X environment has double
> spacing. I wonder how to fix it? It seems that it is due to the
> html environment or macros being loaded. How do I find out where these
> macros are located and what macros are being loaded. Then how do I
> go about figuring out how to modifying them to fix this?
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