Sorry for not making myself clear. It ended in "1". Been rather sick and not on that machine till maybe tomorrow, and will execute the strace. Thank-you for your help
Mike On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:17:33PM +0300, Dmitry Ulyanov wrote: > vi /tmp/foo correctly ending? > if not, execute strace vi /tmp/foo and show output > > -- > Best regards, > Dmitry Ulyanov > > Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:39:07PM -0600, Michael ??????????????(??): > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:46:17AM -0600, Michael wrote: > > > > This is on an Slackware system. I only have root my regular user > > > > accounts. > > > > When I am finished writing an email, I get something similar at bottom > > > > of my mutt screen: > > > > Error running "vi '/tmp/mutt-MarahIII-1000-2799-33'"! > > > > > > > > I have tried using: > > > > set editor="/usr/bin/elvis" > > > > set editor="vi" > > > > set editor="/usr/bin/vi" > > > > and even commenting out the line all together. > > > > > > Is vi == elvis on your system? > > > > > > > yes, sorry for not making that clear > > > > > > No matter what, I get the same "error". > > > > I check the /tmp directory and see the two mutt files and I think the > > > > error always relates to message no sent. > > > > > > > > Any help? > > > > > > What program/version is /bin/sh on your system? Mutt invokes the editor > > > as: > > > /bin/sh -c 'vi /tmp/foo' > > > > > > One thing you might try is to run that command via your shell and print > > > out the exit code (in bash you can echo $?). Normally this should be 0 > > > if no error occurred. > > > > > > me > > > > > > ran your command followed by echo $? and it returned a "1" > > > > > > fwiw- I just tried running this on openbsd and it returned the "0". > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Michael E. > > > > -- > > "Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, > > expressed in M&Ms: 250" > > > > > > - Harper's Index -- "Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250" - Harper's Index
