On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 23:42 +0000, Tyler wrote:
> I've got mutt up and running (although I'm still using thunderbird for
> mailing lists/newsgroups, hopefully not much longer). One problem I've
> run into is that I can't convince it to open emacs in text-mode. I've
> got text-mode set-up for auto-fill, which I like using for sending mail.
> However, I have not been able to get it to open automatically in the
> mode. I've googled here and elsewhere and found numerous options that
> should work, but none do.
>
> Specifically, what I've tried in my .muttrc:
>
> set editor="emacs -f text-mode"
>
> set editor="emacs --eval '(text-mode)'"
>
> set editor="emacs --eval '(turn-on-auto-fill)'"
>
> All of these work from the command line. None of them work in .muttrc.
> Curiously,
>
> set editor="emacs -nw"
I haven't used Mutt for a while, but when I did I hade the following
in .muttrc:
set editor='emacs %s -nw -f mail-mode'
I would guess that it should work for text-mode too.
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