[Linux-disciples] mutt is apparently still confusing to me

[Stephen R Laniel]

Riddle me this: I use the following two lines in ~/.muttrc
to specify mutt's behavior when I send text messages to a
Verizon account and when I send to everyone else:

set tmpdir="/home/slaniel/mutt_tmp"
send-hook '~C vtext\.com' 'set abort_nosubject=no;unset signature;set tmpdir="/home/slaniel/mutt_tmp/to_cell"'

(~/.vimrc then bases its message width off the directory in
which it's editing a file -- message width 0 when it's in
~/mutt_tmp/to_cell, 60 when in ~/mutt_tmp.)

But now, if I replace that first line with

send-hook '.' 'set tmpdir="/home/slaniel/mutt_tmp"'

it doesn't work: mutt/vim fall back to what I assume is the
default, which is a message width of 72 or so.

Can anyone explain to me why this happens?

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