Re: Replying from Mutt
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:30:04AM -0500, Lou Losee wrote:
> > The dist-upgrade of testing appears to have altered mutt so replies are
> > edited with nano instead of vi. I have no aversion to learning another
> > editor although I was comfortable with vi but my first attempt to reply
> > to a message failed. I struggled to find the exit from nano but
> > succeeded in reaching the usual screen with y for send mail however
> > after 24 hours the reply has not appeared in the list.
> >
> I believe that mutt uses the editor defined to either the VISUAL or
> EDITOR environment variables. If neither of these are set it then uses
> the string 'vi'.
>
> Perhaps something you installed/upgraded has set one of these env
> variables.
>
> Try issuing 'echo $VISUAL' and 'echo $EDITOR' to see if either of them are
> set.
Or you can set this in ~/.muttrc
set editor = "vim -c 'set tw=72'"'
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:wq!
Matthew Daubenspeck
http://www.oddprocess.org
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