Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

[Robert.Land@t-online.de (Robert Wilhelm Land)]

Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Does mutt read anything else in your .muttrc ?
Can't tell yet - I'm very new to all this and thought of sending
and replying mail on localhost. There arn't any other settings in
~/.muttrc which I could test.


> When running mutt, what does it give you if you type
>
> :set ?editor
This is one part of the solution!
This part gives out: "/usr/bin/editor" which is linked against
/etc/alternatives/editor, which is again linked against
/usr/bin/nvi (!!)

Please continue reading:

> Mutt should read /etc/Muttrc first, then your ~/.muttrc , so your
>
> personal settings will override anything in /etc/Muttrc.
Thought so too! Following your tip I tried sucessfully:
":set editor="emacs -nw"

This is like haunting....


Additionaly - are these links a debian way of setting up a system?,
I'm really confused!

rland@MINI:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/emacs
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root   23 Feb 12  2001 /usr/bin/emacs  -> 
/etc/alternatives/emacs
rland@MINI:~$ <"mailto:rland@MINI:~$";> ls -l  /etc/alternatives/emacs
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root   16 Feb 12  2001 /etc/alternatives/emacs  
-> /usr/bin/emacs20
rland@MINI:~$ <"mailto:rland@MINI:~$";> ls -l  /usr/bin/emacs20
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root   10 Feb 12  2001 /usr/bin/emacs20  -> 
emacs-20.7
rland@MINI:~$ <"mailto:rland@MINI:~$";> ls -l /usr/bin/emacsclient
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root   root    29 Feb 12  2001 /usr/bin/emacsclient 
->/etc/alternatives/emacsclient
rland@MINI:~$ <"mailto:rland@MINI:~$";> ls -l /usr/bin/emacs-20.7
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2913364 Jun 20  2000 /usr/bin/emacs-20.7




Robert