[8295] in SIPB bug reports
Re: help with mutt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Roy)
Mon Nov 18 12:50:30 2002
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:21:24 -0500
From: Daniel Roy <droy@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20021118171628.GO15792@multics.mit.edu>
Resent-From: jhawk@MIT.EDU
Resent-To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
i tried setting editor at the prompt using
set editor="emacs -nw"
and in my .env... file with setenv. no luck.
...
dan
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:16:28PM -0500, John Hawkinson wrote:
> 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
