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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:45:24 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.1.8: Mutt can't spawn editor or shell
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In-Reply-To: <20010225225025.B27406@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 10:50:25PM +0100

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 10:50:25PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:30:47AM -0800, Manoj Plakal wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks a lot, mutt works now! BTW, if sh was
>> required for the syscall then how come vim
>> was able to perform shell commands without
>> problems? Is this specific to mutt?
>
>It's not specific to mutt but I don't know why it works in vim.
>A look into the sources should help, though.

I believe that vim is pretty clever about using your editor from
/etc/passwd or possibly from the SHELL environment variable.

cgf

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