Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Does mutt read anything else in your .muttrc ? Can't tell yet - I'm very new to all this and thought of sending and replying mail on localhost. There arn't any other settings in ~/.muttrc which I could test.
> When running mutt, what does it give you if you type > > :set ?editor This is one part of the solution! This part gives out: "/usr/bin/editor" which is linked against /etc/alternatives/editor, which is again linked against /usr/bin/nvi (!!) Please continue reading: > Mutt should read /etc/Muttrc first, then your ~/.muttrc , so your > > personal settings will override anything in /etc/Muttrc. Thought so too! Following your tip I tried sucessfully: ":set editor="emacs -nw" This is like haunting.... Additionaly - are these links a debian way of setting up a system?, I'm really confused! rland@MINI:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/emacs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Feb 12 2001 /usr/bin/emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs rland@MINI:~$ <"mailto:rland@MINI:~$";> ls -l /etc/alternatives/emacs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 12 2001 /etc/alternatives/emacs -> /usr/bin/emacs20 rland@MINI:~$ <"mailto:rland@MINI:~$";> ls -l /usr/bin/emacs20 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 12 2001 /usr/bin/emacs20 -> emacs-20.7 rland@MINI:~$ <"mailto:rland@MINI:~$";> ls -l /usr/bin/emacsclient lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 12 2001 /usr/bin/emacsclient ->/etc/alternatives/emacsclient rland@MINI:~$ <"mailto:rland@MINI:~$";> ls -l /usr/bin/emacs-20.7 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2913364 Jun 20 2000 /usr/bin/emacs-20.7 Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
