[ILUG] Mutt

[kevin lyda]

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'.

see www.linux.ie for a tutorial.  alternatively use a different text
editor.  use the EDITOR environment variable to change your default
editor.

do the following:

    my.prompt$ echo $SHELL

if it's bash, ksh or sh do this:

    my.prompt$ export EDITOR=joe

if it's tcsh or csh:
    
    my.prompt$ setenv EDITOR joe

you can also add this to your shell rc file.  .profile or .bashrc for
sh (or bash), or .cshrc or .tcshrc for csh (tcsh).

kevin

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