Re: pipe mutt message into vim

2001-12-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Karsten M. Self muttered: > > It's not clear to me what it is you're really trying to do. > > - "E" will invoke an editor on the current message. > > - You can also save a message to a file and edit this file. > > Slick. dman replied offlist, I learned something. vim does pipes: > > $ d

Re: pipe mutt message into vim

2001-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:40:28PM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:31:26PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm unclear about pipes! I frequently wish to pipe the contents of a > > message I'm reading in mutt into vim, e

Re: pipe mutt message into vim

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:31:26PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm unclear about pipes! I frequently wish to pipe the contents of a > message I'm reading in mutt into vim, edit the contents to a saved file > and then return to mutt. > > I have simplistically tried from

Re: pipe mutt message into vim

2001-12-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:31:26PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: | I'm unclear about pipes! I frequently wish to pipe the contents of a | message I'm reading in mutt into vim, edit the contents to a saved file | and then return to mutt. | | I have simplistically tried from mutt "|" then "vim"

pipe mutt message into vim

2001-12-07 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'm unclear about pipes! I frequently wish to pipe the contents of a message I'm reading in mutt into vim, edit the contents to a saved file and then return to mutt. I have simplistically tried from mutt "|" then "vim" from the mutt shell prompt, which doesnt work. I guess I want to do the equival