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Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question

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On Sun 23 Apr 2017 at 19:47:49 (-0400), Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Mutt (1.5.23) is rebuffing my every attempt to get ispell working.
> Currently I have in .muttrc:
> 
> set ispell="ispell --mode=email"
> 
> This threw no error when mutt launched, so it was with high spirits
> that I tried to send off deliberately misspelled emails. Alas and
> alack. these arrived at their intended destinations with their test
> misspellings intact.
> 
> Could it be (he asked) that spell-checking in mutt does not follow
> on auto-magically (if that is the word I'm looking for here) via the
> bare expedient of creating an entry in .muttrc such as is on display
> several lines above?

According to my key bindings, you should press i when in the compose
menu, the one where you then press y to send it, or e to edit it again.
At this point, the message is in /tmp or /var/tmp or wherever you
configured it.

> Throwing myself on Google's mercy leads me to believe that the only
> editor permitted (so to speak) with mutt is vim. I refuse to accept
> this, and, if found to be true, would protest in the strongest
> available terms through proper channels.

Eh? You can use any editor; I use emacs. You should put
set editor="invocation command and parameters"
in the same file as the ispell setting.

/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt*

Cheers,
David.

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OT Big Dummy mutt question Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2017-04-24 02:20 +0200
  Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-04-24 02:50 +0200
    Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2017-04-24 03:10 +0200
  Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-04-24 03:40 +0200
    Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2017-04-24 04:10 +0200
      Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-04-24 04:40 +0200

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