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From: eo@ansa.co.UK (Ed Oskiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Default editor switches in .mh_profile
Message-ID: <9103111635.AA03682%caligula@ansa.co.uk>
Date: 11 Mar 91 16:35:05 GMT
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Does anyone know of a way to provide startup arguments to the Editor:
specified in your .mh_profile?

For instance,I use the following:
Editor: emacs

and would like it to start up in text mode automatically. If I put
Editor: emacs -f text-mode

Then I get the following error msg from csh

unable to exec emacs -f text-mode: No such file or directory

I guess that its trying to start an editor called "emacs -f text-mode". The
same sort of error happens if I sprinkle quotes around any of these 3 tokens.
Is there any way to achieve this effect?

I'm running on a Sun4 with SunOS 4.03 (UK) and the following configuration:

version: MH 6.7.1 #12[UCI] (caligula) of Fri Feb 22 16:46:13 GMT 1991
options: [BSD42] [BSD43] [SUN40] [TYPESIG=void] [BIND] [BERK] [UK]
         [DUMB] [RPATHS] [MHE] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [MSGPROT='"0600"']
         [FOLDPROT='"0700"'] [SENDMTS] [SMTP]

Cheers,

Ed Oskiewicz

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