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Re: Colors in mutt while editing in vim



* Viktor Lakics <lakicsv@usa.net>, 2001-04-28 21:30 +0200:
> I am moving from Mandrake to Debian (mostly because I do NOT want to
> do a clean install with every new version of my Linux distro). On mandrake I used mutt with
> colors for Subject, From, etc (set in my .muttrc). I am using the same
> muttrc (symlinked from my mandrake home directory to the new debian home
> dir), these colors are displayed just fine in the pager, but when I edit
> a mail or create a new with vim, colors are gonei (it worked out of the
> box on mandrake, I have the same .vimrc .muttrc, everything symlinked). 
> 
> What happened to vim? Why vim cannot use the color settings now? (BTW, I was
> always suprised that vim actually used the same colors what are set in
> my muttrc)?

Here's the setting from my .muttrc:

set editor="vim -c 'set nobackup' -c 'set tw=72 et' -c 'syn on' '+/: $'"

Note I switch on _Vim_ syntax highlighting, which is not in my .vimrc.

A. B.                                       [andre.berger@topmail.de]

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