On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:27:44PM -0400, William Park ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:04:18PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> > On 2001-05-16 16:39:32 -0400, Mr. Wade wrote:
> >
> > >Mutt also has a built-in editor, "crappy" or otherwise, not that I
> > >make a habit of using it very often. unset $editor or specify
> > >"-x" on the commandline, not that I make a practice of using it
> > >very often. :o)
> >
> > It doesn't even have a full-screen mode. ;-)
> >
> > It's just there in order to add some kind of mailx send-mode
> > emulation to mutt.
>
> Why not just get rid of built-in editor, mailx emulation, and other
> silly "backward" compatibility stuffs? Nobody really uses Mutt for
> mailx emulation!
You'd be surprised. "Use mutt with -x" is a standard answer to the
(increasingly common) question, "How can I send mail with an
attachment from my noninteractive process?" (Except that they usually
mispel "noninteractive process" as "CGI script".)
-Rich
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