Changing default editor in mutt

[Alex Snow]

Thanks, I just wrote a .muttrc file from the described vars in the mutt
docs.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Howell" <aaron at kitten.net.au>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Changing default editor in mutt


> Mutt honors the EDITOR environment variable,
> So if you want your default editor to be say, vi, then you would do
> export EDITOR=vi
> export VISUAL=vi
> the visual is for some older programs which check that variable before
they check editor (short for visual editor).
> You can of course add those two lines to your .bash_profile.
> (obviously if you're using some derivitive of csh instead of bash, you'd
use setenv instead of export.)
> Note that in the above, EDITOR and VISUAL are in upper case, the rest is
lower.
> That should get mutt using your favorite editor (oh, you could specify a
pathname after the = sign if you need to).
> Regards
> Aaron
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:45:37AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > How can one change the default editor in mutt?
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> > Alex Snow
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