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Re: pipe mutt message into vim



on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:31:26PM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange (rory@campbell-lange.net) wrote:
> I'm unclear about pipes! I frequently wish to pipe the contents of a
> message I'm reading in mutt into vim, edit the contents to a saved file
> and then return to mutt.
> 
> I have simplistically tried from mutt "|" then "vim" from the mutt shell
> prompt, which doesnt work. I guess I want to do the equivalent of 
> 
> cat < /tmp/xyz
> 
> but where xyz is the contents of the current message.
> 
> Before you ask, I do know how to save mutt messages!

It's not clear to me what it is you're really trying to do.

  - "E" will invoke an editor on the current message.

  - You can also save a message to a file and edit this file.
  
Peace.

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