On 2012-03-11, Chris Bennett <ch...@bennettconstruction.us> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 09:02:58PM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: >> >> You most likely set EDITOR to something containing "vi". ksh parses that >> and switches to vi mode. IMO it's a disgusting "feature", but that >> appears to be just me. >> > Wow, that is a disgusting pile of crap! > alias mutt='env EDITOR=vim mutt' > does the trick.
Plenty of things pick up EDITOR, I tried that approach for a while but it soon became unmaintainable. .
