emacs -nw as external editor

[Heiko Gerdau]

On Saturday 03 January 2004 07:55, Eddy Mulyono wrote:
> I wanted to use emacs as mc's external editor. But I prefer having the
> non-X interface that is invoked with "-nw".
>
> I have managed to change my EDITOR to "/usr/bin/emacs -nw", since `echo
> ${EDITOR}` gives me "/usr/bin/emacs -nw".
>
> When i started mc, and tried to invoke the editor with [F4], emacs is
> not executed. mc appeared to try to execute it (similar effect achieved
> when pressing C-o), and the cursor goes to top-left of the terminal
> (0,0), but it immediately returns to mc's panels.
>
> Note that without the -nw switch, mc was able to invoke emacs. So I
> guess the -nw switch breaks things... :p
>
> Any suggestions?

as a workaround you could call a bash script in $EDITOR to envoke emacs 
with -nw.
That works for me.

Greetings
Heiko