Mutt question

[Gregory Nowak]

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What I do is to export the EDITOR and VISUAL variables in my
$HOME/.bash_profile like so:

export VISUAL=/usr/bin/emacs
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs

. This makes emacs be my default editor for mutt, and everything
else. Since you want to use nano, your lines would obviously look
different, but the above should give you an idea of what you need to
do. Remember that any changes to .bash_profile will not take effect
until you logout, and login again, or just doing

source .bash_profile

should also work without logging out and in. Hth.

Greg


On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:25:53PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> I have just started looking at Mutt on my new Debian system and I'm a bit
> puzzled.
> Somehow in the installation, the default editor became Vim.  How can I
> change it to Nano?
> I see references to editor bindings in /etc/Muttrc, but nothing about
> changing the actual program.
> Help would be appreciated.
> thanks.
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