[13602] in Athena Bugs
MH ignores environment variables
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Mon Jun 19 16:48:08 1995
From: tetrion@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 16:47:59 -0400
To: mjbauer@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
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>MH "repl" ignores the EDITOR variable; MH "show" ignores the PAGER
>variable. For those of us sickos that use emacs as a shell, emacs is
>not the right editor, and more is not the right pager.
>
>MJB
>
Hi,
Sorry it took us a year to get back to you on this, you probably have
figured out the problem already but here's our answer:
MH doesn't read the environment variables, however, you may change
the default pager and editor by editing the .mh_profile with the following
lines:
Editor: <choice of editor>
showproc: <choice of program to view message>
If you are using emacs as a shell however, I suggest you use the
emacs mh interface for reading mail. M-x mh-rmail, or some other emacs
mail reader (e.g. M-x rmail) The manpages for repl and show have more
information on mh settings.
Thank you for using Athena.
Kenny
DCNS
