The discussion of how to access in your editor mail in your folders other than the one mutt gave you when it put you into the editor seems to have died away, but before everyone forgets about it, I want to say that for people who don't have a GUI, you can still have windows/screens to cut and paste from. Check out screen, from these links: Sven Guckes [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- screen-3.9.9 SCREEN MailList http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/gnu-screen/ [010525] SCREEN UserPage http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/screen/user.html SCREEN SetupFile http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/setup/screenrc The other thing is, there is a vim script called mailbrowser.vim, which is now on http://vim.sourceforge.net "[25-Jul-2001] mailbrowser.vim : Browse Berkeley mbox format mailbox files (1.1) Silenced some unwanted messages. Added flag for "New" (unread) mail to the index. :SMail now works to always split mail browser into new window - Mark Waggoner " This opens up an index of an mbox folder in vim, and you can browse in it and select from it. The email appears in another buffer. "This script allows you to browse (read) email from a standard Berkeley mbox formatted mail file. When you type :Mail or :Mail <filename>, it will scan the file for headers, extract them, and present you with a list of the mail items present in the file. You can easily select mail items to view. It does not (as yet) allow you to send mail in any form, or to delete mail from the mailbox. " I just found it and am excited about it. However, it is for vim-6.0, which is still alpha, and if you compile vim with multibyte, a non-ASCII marker placed in the index breaks it, at least in my case. But you can munge this. -- Greg Matheson Those who can do. Chinmin College, Those who can't operate. Taiwan --G B Shaw