From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 5 19:44:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h008.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2611237B41A for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:44:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 22309 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2001 19:44:35 -0800 Received: from 64.195.103.89 (HELO boethius.telocity.com) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.214) with SMTP; 5 Dec 2001 19:44:35 -0800 X-Sent: 6 Dec 2001 03:44:35 GMT Received: by boethius.telocity.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 03A1822CE; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:44:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:44:34 -0600 From: Anthony Kim To: Nils Holland Cc: mpd , Phil Webb , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mutt setup Message-ID: <20011206034434.GC3737@boethius.telocity.com> Mail-Followup-To: Nils Holland , mpd , Phil Webb , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011205204411.5F4C33C4A72@gateway.wvi.com> <20011205180525.A2798@rit.edu> <20011206002445.A94520@tisys.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011206002445.A94520@tisys.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 06, 2001, Nils Holland wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:05:25PM -0500, mpd was heard saying: > > > > > > 2) Is it possible for me to "call" vi as my editor of > > > choice rather than use the Emacs-style editor built into > > > mutt? I have no "religious" bias against Emacs, I am just > > > sticking to the fewest possible variables on the learning > > > curve at any one time and am learning vi for portabilities > > > sake. > > > > The EDITOR env variable (or VISUAL, or something.) > > Yes, that works. However, if you want to override what you have > set in your environment, so that mutt used something else, you > can put a line like "set editor="vim" into your .muttrc. > > Greetings Nils Does anyone use vim (or other editor) to actually read mail in mutt? [set pager=vim] It was fun for awhile but I prefer the mutt keystrokes. -- "Le motd juste." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message