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[ILUG] Mutt

[ILUG] Mutt

ocorrain at esatclear.ie ocorrain at esatclear.ie
Tue Feb 13 18:35:44 GMT 2001


On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:33:57PM +0000, Mark Page wrote:
> I've read the man pages but to no avail. When I go to compose a fresh 
> e-mail I'm presented with first the 'to' field followed by the 'subject 
> field'. So far no problem. I then get presented with what I presume is a 
> text editor - vi? am I right? The first couple of key clicks do nothing 
> but then I can type away. I cannot however work out how to tell Mutt 
> that I've finished typing the message and want to send. I keep seeing 
> messages like 'this is not a vi command'.

You need to learn about vi -- it has a somewhat obscure
syntax. Alternatively, if you wish to use another editor, set the
editor in your .muttrc file.

       set editor="emacs -nw" (or whatever you want)

Cheers

Tiarnan







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