Re: Editor for Mutt on win32
* Robert Eisig <quantumchaos666@xxxxxxx> [2005-04-04 20:23]:
> Michael Tatge wrote:
> >* On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 Robert Eisig (quantumchaos666@xxxxxxx) muttered:
> >
> >>I am installing mutt on a win32 system (Windows 2000).
> >
> >
> >native or cygwin?
>
> it is a native windows port from
> http://www.geocities.com/win32mutt/win32.html but the site is currently
> down :-(
>
> >>When I try to edit a message with ultraedit, I can't write it back, it
> >>seems the file is locked.
>
> >as in you cannot save?
>
> the behaviour was very strange. I just did some tests and in the end I
> found it is a better idea to use the command line editor "edit"... which
> now works:
>
> set EDITOR=edit
>
> So I think it was just a problem of Ultraedit, and not of mutt.
>
> Now there is another problem which I will put into a new thread.
>
> Thank you very much
> Robert
>
I can recommend Vim (www.vim.org). It's a bit tricky at first but
once you come over the first bit it's very useful and competent and
also works very well with mutt. On the other hand, if you only going
to use it as an e-mail editor it may not be worth it. Just my 2 cent
:-).
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