wow .. thanx I was using vim to write and display mail also but i didn't know how to make it to exec in hebrew mode
so this helps a lot ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eli Segal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Hebrew with mutt > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003, Eli Segal wrote about "Hebrew with mutt": > > What Are my option to be able to read and write with mutt client ?? > > Here is what I use in my ~/.muttrc. Yes, I know some of these options (in > particular 'charset') may be the "wrong" options to use, but it works... > > # This character set is used on outgoing mail when it contains non-ascii > # characters. > set charset="iso-8859-8-i" > > # use external pager, and don't prompt after it! > set noprompt_after > set pager="bidi_pager" > > Where bidi_pager is the following small script: > > #!/bin/sh > # I use this as mutt's pager > exec bidiv "$@" | less -c > > (see http://ftp.ivrix.org.il/pub/ivrix/src/cmdline/ for bidiv - or if you > use Debian, just fetch the "bidiv" package). > > This setup will send Hebrew mail as iso-8859-8-i, and will be able to read > Hebrew mail in either iso-8859-8-i (or the equivalent Windows encoding) or > UTF8. To actually *edit* Hebrew mail, you'll need to set up your editor > accordingly; I use vim, with macros to switch direction and language - > something like > > export VIMINIT='map! ESC[24~ ESC:set invhk invrl^Ma > map ESC[24~ :set invhk invrl' > (replace ESC by the actual ESCAPE character). > > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Feb 16 2003, 14 Adar I 5763 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |"A mathematician is a device for turning > http://nadav.harel.org.il |coffee into theorems" -- P. Erdos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
