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
