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

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

That's not how it works in my experience. Have you tried stripping
everything out of muttrc and leaving just those two lines and see if
it's really doing what you say it is?

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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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