on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:40:28PM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([email protected]) wrote: > on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:31:26PM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm unclear about pipes! I frequently wish to pipe the contents of a > > message I'm reading in mutt into vim, edit the contents to a saved file > > and then return to mutt. > > > > I have simplistically tried from mutt "|" then "vim" from the mutt shell > > prompt, which doesnt work. I guess I want to do the equivalent of > > > > cat < /tmp/xyz > > > > but where xyz is the contents of the current message. > > > > Before you ask, I do know how to save mutt messages! > > It's not clear to me what it is you're really trying to do. > > - "E" will invoke an editor on the current message. > > - You can also save a message to a file and edit this file.
Slick. dman replied offlist, I learned something. vim does pipes:
$ df | vim -
...which results in an editable buffer.
Thanks.
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