[8293] in SIPB bug reports
Re: help with mutt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Nov 18 12:16:37 2002
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:16:28 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Daniel Roy <droy@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <20021118165533.GA13616@w20-575-82.mit.edu>
Daniel Roy <droy@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 18 Nov 2002
at 11:55:33 -0500 in <20021118165533.GA13616@w20-575-82.mit.edu>:
> i'm using mutt and i really like it but i have a couple questions:
>
> 1) how can i change the color: i'd rather have it use my current
> terminal color scheme because dark gray on black is difficult to
> read
I'll let someone else answer this.
> 2) how can i change the email composition to just re-use the same
> terminal windo rather than popping up emacs... ideally emacs within
> the terminal window for speed reasons... no point in popping up a
> emacs window for each mail...
set editor="emacs -nw"
in your .muttrc, or you can type it interactively by prefixing it with
a colon. If you're going for maximum speed, you could investigate using
emacsclient (or using a faster editor, like vi), but that's more complicated
and advanced (read the emacs documentation).
> 3) how do auto reply-all?
'g' (for group)
--jhawk
