Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Mutt (1.5.23) is rebuffing my every attempt to get ispell 
> working. Currently I have in .muttrc:
>
> set ispell="ispell --mode=email"
>
> This threw no error when mutt launched, so it was with high 
> spirits that I tried to send off deliberately misspelled emails. 
> Alas and alack. these arrived at their intended destinations 
> with their test misspellings intact.
>
> Could it be (he asked) that spell-checking in mutt does not 
> follow on auto-magically (if that is the word I'm looking for 
> here) via the bare expedient of creating an entry in .muttrc 
> such as is on display several lines above?
>
> Throwing myself on Google's mercy leads me to believe that the 
> only editor permitted (so to speak) with mutt is vim. I refuse 
> to accept this, and, if found to be true, would protest in the 
> strongest available terms through proper channels.
>
> Please help.

  i'm using the version of mutt in testing/stretch
and can say that i have no setting in .muttrc at
all and it just works.

  what does mutt -v | grep SPELL say?

and/or:

  if you remove your set line does it work?

  or if you use /usr/bin/ispell?



  songbird