Message-Id: <200209141529.g8EFTVH20003@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Sent: 14 Sep 2002 15:29:09 GMT X-Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Mutt editor From: news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com User-Agent: Xnews/4.11.09 X-No-Archive: yes To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Gate: Hamster/1.3.23.185 NewsToMail-Gate Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 16:59:21 +0200 As I have mentioned before, I cannot persuade mutt to run in rxvt or an xterm (in the former case the window simply goes black, and iirc in the latter case it complains that it cannot determine the screen size, they may be one and the same problem, I don't know). Similarly, mutt and emacs don't want to live together on my computer. All in all I wasn't so happy - the normal terminal doesn't allow pasting (and jmacs doesn't seem to be interested in marking, copying, and pasting text either), which I find tiresome when editing emails. A solution might be known by some of you for some or all of these problems, but I just put together a very short script to work around them. It is based on an excellent suggestion I saw here for starting rxvt from a shortcut (thanks, whoever it was!). Here is the script: --begin-- #!/bin/bash rxvt -name "joe" +ls -sr -sl 0 -tn rxvt -bg "#e0f0e0" -fg "#000040" -cr midnightblue -fn "Lucida Console-14" -geometry 80x43+0+0 -backspacekey ^H -e jmacs $1 --end-- Simply change your editor setting in .muttrc to whatever you call the script. The only downside I have found is a small delay when finishing the editing and returning to mutt. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/