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I have activated in Alpine email client the following setting in order to use Emacs as an editor when composing emails:

[X]  Enable Alternate Editor Implicitly
Editor = emacsclientw.exe -ca runemacs.exe

When I put the cursor in the body field of message, Emacs opens. But the problem is returning the contents of the Emacs buffer to Alpine. When I save the temporary buffer and return to Alpine, the typed text does not appear in Alpine.

If I use the below settings, Alpine returns the content of Emacs buffer to Alpine, but the problem is that this opens a new instance of Emacs that I dislike.

[X]  Enable Alternate Editor Implicitly
Editor    = emacs.exe
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  • I use the latter setup. I actually like that composing messages does not interfere with my programming work in emacs server.
    – Jaap Joris Vens
    Sep 10, 2020 at 8:56
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    (Your first and preferred option) After saving in emacs did you do "C-x #"? Or did you just click alpine window? Also before starting alpine try starting emacs as daemon: "emacs.exe --daemon"
    – Rusi
    Oct 27, 2020 at 14:42
  • @Rusi Thank you, your comment solves the problem. Feel free to convert your comment into an answer, it may help other too.
    – Name
    Oct 27, 2020 at 14:44
  • Glad to be of help @Name. Do note that you got your help after more than a month! And (from my pov) by fluke because I just landed here by chance. At emacs se you would get many more experts looking (I think)
    – Rusi
    Oct 28, 2020 at 4:34
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    @Rusi The reason I posted the question here was that there are more questions about alpine email client on superuser than emacs se.
    – Name
    Oct 28, 2020 at 9:51

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(Your first and preferred option)

After saving in emacs did you do "C-x #"? Or did you just click alpine window? Also before starting alpine try starting emacs as daemon:

 emacs.exe --daemon
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