On Tue, Jun 27, 2000, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> Ken W [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > Sorry if I am missing something obvious, but something seems odd to me
> > with mutt's shell-escape behavior. If I hit '!' and type at the
> > prompt 'vim ~/.signature', it knows it exists because tab completions
> > finishes '.signature', yet it opens it as a new file. Is mutt not
> > correctly resolving '~'?
>
> I can't duplicate it here, using the same mutt you were (1.0i). The above
> opens vim on my existing ~/.signature, as expected.
vim says on the bottom: "~/.signature" [New File] . Weird though
that file tab completion expands it.
> Perhaps there is a problem somewhere else in your setup? What file does
> vim think it's editing? Odd that you wouldn't, but are you sure you have
> correct perms for the file you're trying to edit?
Permissions on .signature are 600. And yes, it is owned by me. :) If
I ctrl-z, the same thing brings it up fine from the command line.
-Ken
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