Joel, I use VIM for everything, not just mutt, so I added:
export VISUAL=vim export EDITOR=vim to my .bash_profile...tho nate's solution works equally well. bill ----- Forwarded message from Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:28:33 -0500 From: Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Mutt's Editor User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.15 i586 unknown On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:21:53PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > I'd want to use VIM as my primary text editor in Mutt. What line do I need to > add to my ~/.vimrc ? > > Thanks ! Hi Joel. In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line: set editor=/usr/bin/vim That's all I had to do. HTH, - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | "None can love freedom Internet | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | heartily, but good Location | Wichita, Kansas USA EM17hs | men; the rest love not Wichita area exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | freedom, but license." http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | -- John Milton -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null ----- End forwarded message -----