On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 13:58:36 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:04:42PM +0100, Byrial Jensen wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 18:54:59 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > > There is no `help' function in editor context (BTW `editor' is a very
> > > misleading name. Until today I thought it meant that mutt had a very
> > > basic (maybe like ed(1)) internal editor for composing messages :-)
> >
> > It has. Use "set editor=builtin" to use it.
>
> This doesn't work in 1.1.2i. After
>
> :set editor=builtin
>
> trying to edit a message results in an error from the shell
I said that it was possible to *compose* messages using the
builtin editor, and it is.
You're right that it cannot be used to edit existing messages.
There should of course be a check to see if you're trying to do
that, so you can get a proper error message instead of core
dumps or other strange things.
I'm sure someone will post patch to repair that.
--
Byrial
