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Re: Default nmh editor

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed May 19 08:48:54 1999

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
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From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 May 1999 08:48:45 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Wed, 19 May 1999 01:08:29 -0400"
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<daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Greg Hudson) writes:
> It's been remarked that the default editor for nmh seems to be vi.  I
> don't know precisely what changed, though.

MH and nmh both compile the default editor's name into the
program.  Adding "--with-editor=emacs" to nmh's configure.athena
script looks like it will do what you want.

-Jake

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