Re: Background editing

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 09:11:37PM +0100, Eike Rathke wrote:

To conveniently switch between graphics and terminal editor I have the
following in muttrc

source '~/.mutt/detectgui.sh|'

and detectgui.sh contains

#!/bin/sh
if [ -n "$MUTT_USE_GVIM" -a -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
   echo 'set editor="gvim -f"'
   echo 'set background_edit=yes'
else
   echo 'set editor=vim'
fi


So exporting MUTT_USE_GVIM=yes (or anything) in the shell invoking mutt
switches to the background editing feature. Maybe that helps some to
test it.

Thank you.

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Replying to Aaron reminded me that you had sent a useful script too. Sorry for dropping the ball on replies! As I said with Aaron, the same goes here. If you'd like to contribute this, or a current iteration of it, please just let me know. I'll bundle them into a background-edit group.

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