Re: Very odd problem with 'set editor'
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:09:13PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> I run mutt on a networked Solaris machine, normally everything works
> fine but just at present one of our servers is down and when mutt
> invokes my editor it hangs with an 'NFS server not responding' error.
>
> However the odd thing is that I can call the editor from the command
> line with no problems, it's built on my local machine so doesn't use
> any remote libraries or anything. I can even call the editor without
> prolems from within mutt using the '!' shell escape.
>
> So what is mutt doing when it calls my editor to reply to mail (or to
> create a new mail, same error) that *isn't* happening when I call the
> editor in the normal way?
>
> (Oh, and the hang is definitely within the editor load sequence, if I
> hit CTRL/C when I see the 'NFS server not responding' error loading
> continues successfully and I can edit/sesnd mail.)
>
It's OK, I found the problem, my editor tries to invoke syntax colour
highlighting when editing mail and that needs perl and perl is on the
failed network machine. Aarrgghh!
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)