Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

["Håkon Alstadheim" <hakon@alstadheim.priv.no>]

reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@alstadheim.priv.no> writes:
>
>   
>> reader@newsguy.com wrote:
>>     
>>> Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Don't know the first thing about emacs, but it may need bringing up
>>>> a terminal first which in turn runs emacs.  You may want to try
>>>> selecting the "Run in terminal" or invoke it like so:
>>>>
>>>> xterm -e /usr/bin/emacs
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> This should not be a factor with X enabled emacs.  And in fact calling
>>> emacs at a cmd prompt just brigs up emacs in it own window, not
>>> another xterm.
>>>
>>> However, and surprisingly it does work... Inserting the xterm -e
>>> command  at:    right click/ open with/ other
>>>
>>> Brings first an xterm which immediately spawns a new emacs window (not
>>> in the xterm but on its own)
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure this is not what SHOULD happen though.  I SHOULD be
>>> able to just insert /usr/bin/emacs  since it does not run in an
>>> xterm. But... thanks .. at least I can edit a page with emacs now.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I have this same problem on some machines. Notably the ones where I've
>> put the most cruft in .emacs. I suspect that there is some bug that
>> stops garbage-collection from happening during startup so emacs runs
>> out of memory. Somehow having a tty attached works around that. 
>>     
>
> A little more on this.  Do you mean it works just fine on some
> machines as well?
>
> Something to test your theory... (I tried it here with no better
> results) is from Konq, right click/open with/other  and put /usr/bin/emacs -Q
>
> Which will start emacs with no site-file or ~/.emacs being loaded.
> I tried that here but still just got the bouncing emacs icon/cursor.
>
> Can you start emacs without problems from konqueror at right
> click/open with/  on any machine? I mean without `xterm -e emacs'
>
>
>   
Not running konqueror here, but yes, emacs would fire up quite reliably 
when I had it as my source editor in mozilla, way back when. You most 
definitely SHOULD be able to run it without a terminal window. If you 
are really keen on getting this to work, you could write a little script 
like so to use as your editor: ----
#!/bin/bash
date >>~/emacs.log
emacs "$@" >>~/emacs.log 2>&1
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Come to think of it (while looking up the $@ semantics), could it be 
that the argument fed from konqueror has spaces in it? Maybe it needs 
quoting?

Experiment with adding </dev/null onto there (that never did it for me). 
Have a look at what the log says.


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