Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, songbird wrote: > >> 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. > > I tried the "no setting in .muttrc" and that did the trick. > > Which strikes me as sorta weird, but then, with so much > weirdness around nowadays, why pick on mutt? > > What should we call that approach, Alt-Minimalist? > > Incidentally: > > $ mutt -v | grep SPELL > -ISPELL
ha! interesting! :) > $ which ispell > /usr/bin/ispell > > Thanks all! y.w. :) glad it is working. also interesting to compare: $ mutt -v | grep SPELL ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell" (currently at version: NeoMutt 20170113 (1.7.2) on i386) songbird