Re: alternate editor ?

[Gerard Robin]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 04:56:13PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:

From: Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mutt-users@mutt.org
Subject: Re: alternate editor ?
Organisation: Michelle's Selbstgebrautes

Am 2007-11-11 20:29:01, schrieb Gerard Robin:

Hello,
is it possible to do write this in the file .muttrc (in muttrc language) :

if $DISPLAY=:0.0 then editor=gedit else edtor=vim


set editor=`if [ ${DISPLAY} = :0.0 ] ; then echo gedit ; else echo vim ; fi`


Thanks, it works fine too with gedit, but not with gvim -f, I get the
message: -f  unknown variable.

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Re: alternate editor ?

[Michael Kjorling]

On 24 Nov 2007 19:04 +0100, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerard Robin):
 On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 04:56:13PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
 set editor=`if [ ${DISPLAY} = :0.0 ] ; then echo gedit ; else echo vim ; 
 fi`
 
 Thanks, it works fine too with gedit, but not with gvim -f, I get the
 message: -f  unknown variable.

I am not particularly well-versed in muttrc-language, so the above may
be trivial, but what I have done is write a script that is referenced
in my muttrc, which in turn launches the editor. Then you can do as
many fancy things as you like (I use it to automatically reformat
quote marks and remove excess signatures before passing the message to
the editor, for example).

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Re: alternate editor ?

[Gary Johnson]

On 2007-11-24, Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 04:56:13PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
 From: Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: mutt-users@mutt.org
 Subject: Re: alternate editor ?
 Organisation: Michelle's Selbstgebrautes

 Am 2007-11-11 20:29:01, schrieb Gerard Robin:
 Hello,
 is it possible to do write this in the file .muttrc (in muttrc language) :

 if $DISPLAY=:0.0 then editor=gedit else edtor=vim

 set editor=`if [ ${DISPLAY} = :0.0 ] ; then echo gedit ; else echo vim ; 
 fi`

 Thanks, it works fine too with gedit, but not with gvim -f, I get the
 message: -f  unknown variable.

You'll get that error if gvim -f is not properly quoted, for 
example if you try to set 'editor' like this:

   set editor=gvim -f

Try this form instead.

   set editor=`if [ ${DISPLAY} = :0.0 ] ; then echo 'gvim -f'; else echo 
vim ; fi`

That will make the output of 'echo' be

   gvim -f

which mutt will see as one value for 'editor' instead of just

   gvim -f

which mutt will see as the value gvim for 'editor' followed by 
another variable to be set, -f.

Regards,
Gary

Re: alternate editor ?

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-11-11 20:29:01, schrieb Gerard Robin:
 Hello,
 is it possible to do write this in the file .muttrc (in muttrc language) :
 
 if $DISPLAY=:0.0 then editor=gedit else edtor=vim

set editor=`if [ ${DISPLAY} = :0.0 ] ; then echo gedit ; else echo vim ; fi`

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Tamay Dogan Network
Open Hardware Developer
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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Re: alternate editor ?

[Michael Elkins]

See http://wiki.mutt.org/?ConfigTricks and look for
Generating a dynamic muttrc file

me

Re: alternate editor ?

[Gerard Robin]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:23:45PM -0800, Michael Elkins wrote:

From: Michael Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mutt-users@mutt.org
Subject: Re: alternate editor ?

See http://wiki.mutt.org/?ConfigTricks and look for
Generating a dynamic muttrc file


Many thanks its works fine :-) (but all the quotes are simple quote no 
back-quote ...)

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