Thanks, I just wrote a .muttrc file from the described vars in the mutt docs. ------------------------------- Alex Snow Email: alex_snow at gmx.net BBS: telnet://bbs1.dyndns.org web: http://web.alex-snow.dhs.org The Computer Repair Guy: If It Ain't Broke, I'll mess With It Till It Is! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Howell" <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 5:25 PM Subject: Re: Changing default editor in mutt > Mutt honors the EDITOR environment variable, > So if you want your default editor to be say, vi, then you would do > export EDITOR=vi > export VISUAL=vi > the visual is for some older programs which check that variable before they check editor (short for visual editor). > You can of course add those two lines to your .bash_profile. > (obviously if you're using some derivitive of csh instead of bash, you'd use setenv instead of export.) > Note that in the above, EDITOR and VISUAL are in upper case, the rest is lower. > That should get mutt using your favorite editor (oh, you could specify a pathname after the = sign if you need to). > Regards > Aaron > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:45:37AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > How can one change the default editor in mutt? > > ------------------------------- > > Alex Snow > > Email: alex_snow at gmx.net > > BBS: telnet://bbs1.dyndns.org > > web: http://web.alex-snow.dhs.org > > The Computer Repair Guy: > > If It Ain't Broke, I'll mess With It Till It Is! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > / |\ _,,,---,,_ /| > / /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ / | > / |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' / | > / '---''(_/--' `-'\_) / | > +----------------------------------------------------------+ | > | Aaron Howell Kitten Internet | | > | aaron at kitten.net.au Internet consultancy, | | > | Phone: +61-417-625550 System administration, | | > | fax: +61-7-36010099 system design/integration. | | > | icq: 6715521 http://www.kitten.net.au | | > | | | > | | + > | | / > | | / > | | / > | |/ > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
