emacs -nw as external editor

[Eddy Mulyono]

Heiko Gerdau wrote:
> 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.

Works for me, too! Thanx!

-Eddy