Re: EDITOR

[Ian <ian@vuurwerk.nl>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:21:38PM +0200, Henk Janssen wrote:
> From: "Guy Geens"
> 
> >
> > It's very hard to be a Linux user and avoid vi completely. :)
> 
> I'm sorry if I appear to be a nitwit; but I'm rather fond of AE. Now I have
> this itsipitsy problem (so do you now by the way). My Balsa broke. As a
> result to that  I've looked into MUTT as it goes around here on a regular
> basis... But I have a HUGE problem with VI(M) as it is to much, just like
> emacs. Is there an alternative?
> 
> Because just for mailing with different mailboxes the learningcurve of Mutt,
> Procmail (don't get it but I will) AND Vi(m) is as steep that it makes me
> fall off (as you can probably notice).
> 
> Also if you could set me up a sequence in how to tackle the mountain ahead
> of me..........muchos gracias

set editor="MyFavorite"

in your ~/.muttrc or just stick the following line in your shell
resource file (~/.bashrc or whatever):

export EDITOR=YourFavouriteEditor

in case you use csh or tcsh:

setenv EDITOR YourFavouriteEditor

This will also work for other applications, who will then use
"YourFavouriteEditor" instead of the default (usually vi).

HTH

Ian.