Nick Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sounds fine to me Sam, I don't know what VISUAL is though? > I presume it's a config var, I'll go look it up on the manual.
Sorry, I think I was unclear: VISUAL is an environment variable. It isn't Mutt-specific. You might want to look at the documentation for your shell for more information. If you use bash, putting export VISUAL=vim in your .bash_profile or .bashrc should set the variable for future sessions. info bash will show take you to the bash documentation. (I'm guessing you use bash since it's the default shell in most GNU/Linux distributions.) If you have VISUAL set in your environment, you shouldn't need to set the Mutt "editor" variable, although it certainly doesn't hurt to do so. > Is that why I sometimes see headers with X-editor: Vim? No, that's actually an extra header people add because they want others to know they use Vim. Sam