You should be able to change your default editor in mutt to something else like nano (which, yes, is already on your Mac). Probably definable in .muttrc or in .profile or .bashrc (these aren’t there by default but should be able to create them…) export editor=nano
On Jan 10, 2014, at 2:47 AM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’ve used Alpine off and on for Mail, but VO is just wonky enough with it > that I decided to give it up. > > I once tried using mutt in Linux, but it used VI to compose messages, and not > being much of a coder sort of gal, I thought the keyboard commands extremely > counter-intuitive for an average user like me. I do like Emacspeak, but > haven’t been able to get a speech package to work with it. Do you use VO with > Emacs? I seem to have a fair number of tracking issues with VO in Terminal. > It will read lines I’ve previously selected with the arrow keys instead of > the current line. > > I may poke into Mutt and play with it. I do really like Alpine, though, since > it’s very easy to use and configure. It’s meant to be used by computer > novices. > > Teresa > > "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan > > On Jan 9, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Steve Holmes <steve.holme...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I know some of you had been looking for an alternative to the standard >> Apple mail client so I would like to offer you all another option. I >> am running mutt, a popular text based email client on the Linux >> platform. I installed homebrew, which is like macports to support the >> shell environment. I run Mutt from the terminal app and use emacs as >> my text editor. I would like to maybe try text edit but so far haven't >> figured out how to hook Mutt up to it. >> >> Anyway, I've been reading a bunch of old messages from this list with >> Mutt for the past hour or more and it's pretty cool. >> >> It's neat to have choices out there. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
