Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-08 22:52:45 +1000]: > update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator > > This will give you a menu of all the editors on your system and let you > change/chose the default one. I know you meant to say this instead. update-alternatives --config edit

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > Mutt should read /etc/Muttrc first, then your ~/.muttrc , so your > personal settings will override anything in /etc/Muttrc. The /etc/Muttrc file was the one that confused. Unfortunately I didn't recognized that this file  w a s  on HDD. After failed I didn't think of

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Nick Hastings
Slight tangent... * Robert Wilhelm Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021008 22:00]: > > Additionaly - are these links a debian way of setting up a system?, > I'm really confused! Yes. This is the Debian "alternatives" system. Since there are often many different programs that will perform the same

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Does mutt read anything else in your .muttrc ? Can't tell yet - I'm very new to all this and thought of sending and replying mail on localhost. There arn't any other settings in ~/.muttrc which I could test. > When running mutt, what does it give you if you type > > :se

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert Wilhelm Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021008 00:02]: > In both cases, mutt overrides these settings in .muttrc and uses vi for > composing mail. Does mutt read anything else in your .muttrc ? When running mutt, what does it give you if you type :set ?editor ? Also, try issuing :set edi

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Jack O'Quin wrote: > > Carel Fellinger writes: > > > There is a space in the command, so you need quotes, try : > > > > set editor="emacs -nw" Sorry, this doesn't seem to work - even wouldn't do. In both cases, mutt overrides these settings in .muttrc and uses vi for composing mail. Irritat

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Jack O'Quin
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a space in the command, so you need quotes, try : > > set editor="emacs -nw" I would normally put "export EDITOR=emacsclient" in my .bash_profile for stuff like this. Many programs will use $EDITOR, if defined. If you're using csh, put

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:56:59PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > On the way trying to convince mutt > to use emacs -nw instead of vi by > editing .muttrc as: > > set editor=emacs -nw There is a space in the command, so you need quotes, try : set editor="emacs -nw" -- groetjes, carel

debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
On the way trying to convince mutt to use emacs -nw instead of vi by editing .muttrc as: set editor=emacs -nw ...which didn't work - I came across a whole bunch of links related to emacs: rland@MINI:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/emacs lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Feb 12  2001 /usr/bin/emacs -