on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:40:28PM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> 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.
Slick. dman replied offlist, I learned something. vim does pipes:
$ df | vim -
...which results in an editable buffer.
Thanks.
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