Re: lynx-dev How to spawn an independent emacs window with the webpage in it? (fwd)

[dickey]

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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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> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:00:26 -0500 (EST) 
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> In-Reply-To: <address@hidden> from "Philip Webb" at Feb 15, 99 04:31:14 pm 
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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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