Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

2017-04-23 Thread songbird
Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, songbird wrote: > >> i'm using the version of mutt in testing/stretch >> and can say that i have no setting in .muttrc at >> all and it just works. > > I tried the "no setting in .muttrc" and that did the trick. > > Which strikes me as sorta weird, but

Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

2017-04-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, songbird wrote: i'm using the version of mutt in testing/stretch and can say that i have no setting in .muttrc at all and it just works. I tried the "no setting in .muttrc" and that did the trick. Which strikes me as sorta weird, but then, with so much weirdness around

Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

2017-04-23 Thread songbird
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

Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

2017-04-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, David Wright wrote: According to my key bindings, you should press i when in the compose menu [...] Yes, my 'help' there also shows i associated with ispell. But pressing i only causes the screen to blip very momentarily without showing any ispell activity and then

Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

2017-04-23 Thread David Wright
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