On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:30:04AM -0500, Lou Losee wrote: > > The dist-upgrade of testing appears to have altered mutt so replies are > > edited with nano instead of vi. I have no aversion to learning another > > editor although I was comfortable with vi but my first attempt to reply > > to a message failed. I struggled to find the exit from nano but > > succeeded in reaching the usual screen with y for send mail however > > after 24 hours the reply has not appeared in the list. > > > I believe that mutt uses the editor defined to either the VISUAL or > EDITOR environment variables. If neither of these are set it then uses > the string 'vi'. > > Perhaps something you installed/upgraded has set one of these env > variables. > > Try issuing 'echo $VISUAL' and 'echo $EDITOR' to see if either of them are > set.
Or you can set this in ~/.muttrc set editor = "vim -c 'set tw=72'"' -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
