On Sun 23 Apr 2017 at 19:47:49 (-0400), Bob Bernstein wrote: > Mutt (1.5.23) is rebuffing my every attempt to get ispell working. > Currently I have in .muttrc: > > set ispell="ispell --mode=email" > > This threw no error when mutt launched, so it was with high spirits > that I tried to send off deliberately misspelled emails. Alas and > alack. these arrived at their intended destinations with their test > misspellings intact. > > Could it be (he asked) that spell-checking in mutt does not follow > on auto-magically (if that is the word I'm looking for here) via the > bare expedient of creating an entry in .muttrc such as is on display > several lines above?
According to my key bindings, you should press i when in the compose menu, the one where you then press y to send it, or e to edit it again. At this point, the message is in /tmp or /var/tmp or wherever you configured it. > Throwing myself on Google's mercy leads me to believe that the only > editor permitted (so to speak) with mutt is vim. I refuse to accept > this, and, if found to be true, would protest in the strongest > available terms through proper channels. Eh? You can use any editor; I use emacs. You should put set editor="invocation command and parameters" in the same file as the ispell setting. /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt* Cheers, David.