On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:06:15AM +0100, Barry Mitchelson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> all of a sudden I can't send email. Mutt gets to the point where it
> launches my editor to actually compose the email and just hangs. I'm
> guessing it may have something to do with the new version of vim I
> installed. My question is, how can I change mutts default editor to
> something like pico so that I can see if vim is causing the problem.
>
> I tried changing the EDITOR env var to pico, and adding 'set
> editor="pico"' to my .muttrc but it still hangs.
>
> any ideas ?
>
bit weird replying to my own post, but anyway :)
I've finally managed to get the problem fixed. I had to (for reasons to long to go
into) reinstall Linux, so I tarred up my home dir as a backup and reinstalled. Then I
downloaded the latest Mutt and installed that. Same problem. So i thought it might
be a problem with my .muttrc. So I stripped this down to barely anything - same
problem. Tried the latest dev version of Mutt - same problem.
Finally, I started with a fresh home dir, and copied over my .muttrc from my backup
(ie, rather than untarring the whole home dir again). This worked.
Question is - does anyone have any idea what had happened ?
Are there any other files than my .muttrc which will affect how Mutt operates ?
thanks
barry
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