From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 5 15:24:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38EFA37B405 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:24:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-152.wobline.de [212.68.69.160]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fB5NOfA14383; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:24:41 +0100 Received: from tisys.org (poison.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.5]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB5NPmW13888; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:25:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB5NOj094579; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:24:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:24:45 +0100 From: Nils Holland To: mpd Cc: Phil Webb , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mutt setup Message-ID: <20011206002445.A94520@tisys.org> Mail-Followup-To: mpd , Phil Webb , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011205204411.5F4C33C4A72@gateway.wvi.com> <20011205180525.A2798@rit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011205180525.A2798@rit.edu>; from mpd6334@cs.rit.edu on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:05:25PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poison.ncptiddische.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:05:25PM -0500, mpd was heard saying: > > > > 2) Is it possible for me to "call" vi as my editor of choice rather than use > > the Emacs-style editor built into mutt? I have no "religious" bias against > > Emacs, I am just sticking to the fewest possible variables on the learning > > curve at any one time and am learning vi for portabilities sake. > > The EDITOR env variable (or VISUAL, or something.) Yes, that works. However, if you want to override what you have set in your environment, so that mutt used something else, you can put a line like "set editor="vim" into your .muttrc. Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message