View email in external editor

[Yubin Ruan]

How to view email in external editor such as VIM?

IIRC, the first time I try mutt, which is about one or two year ago, I can
view emails using external editor(such as vim) rather than mutt's builtin
pager so that I can do some copy-paste easily. However, after switching and
trying other email clients I forget the hotkey/command for that, and my
current configuration clearly overwrite that hotkey. Can anyone give me a
hint?

--
Yubin

Re: View email in external editor

[Erik Christiansen]

On 22.05.17 03:49, Yubin Ruan wrote:
> How to view email in external editor such as VIM?

Hello time-traveller,

Yes, via "set pager= ...". The manual has an example which sets it only
for one mail folder:

message-hook ~A 'set pager=builtin'
message-hook '~f freshmeat-news' 'set pager="less \"+/^  subject: .*\""'

Would you invoke "vim -R" or "view", to somewhat reduce the risk of
corrupting received mail through finger fumbles? Hey, maildir format
might have an advantage at last - the received mails could be owned by
"mail", with write permission denied, but you could own the directory,
so you can delete the files despite not owning them. There are such neat
ways to do things on *nix.

Erik