On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 07:43:29AM -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:12:32PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > >If I set the editor variable does mutt execute that command with the > >name of the temporary file after it, or is there some sort of variable > >name for the temporary file? > > I've opened a ticket, because I agree the documentation is lacking: > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3602 > > The $editor string may contain a %s escape, which will be replaced > by the name of the file to be edited. If the %s escape does not > appear in $editor, a space and the name to be edited are appended. > The resulting string is then executed by running > > sh -c 'string' > > where 'string' is the expansion of $editor described above.
Thanks, just what I was after, it would have been a bit messy to find out by experimentation. -- Chris Green
