[neomutt-users] Heads up - built-in editor is going away

[Pietro Cerutti]

On Jun 24 2020, 14:03 UTC, Chris Bennett <chris at bennettconstruction.us> wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30:09AM +0000, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> with https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/2385 I am proposing to remove
>> the code supporting the built-in editor. That is the message editor you get
>> with 'set editor=builtin'. This is not the default.
>>
>> I personally don't see a reason to use the built-in editor instead of
>> relying on an external editor of choice. Removing the built-in editor means
>> getting rid of ~600 lines of almost unmaintained and little known code.
>>
>> However, if you consider the feature important to you and would like to keep
>> it, please speak up so we can consider the pros and cons.
>>
>> Otherwise, I plan to merge the PR in ~ 1 week from now.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Pietro Cerutti
>
>If I can set EDITOR=vi (for using before installing vim),
>Then +1, otherwise, what will happen? I use both vi (rarely but
>occasionally to get certain advantages) but otherwise always vim.

NeoMutt's "editor" variable - which control which external command you 
want to run to edit, already defaults to "vi". You should be on the safe 
side already.

-- 
Pietro Cerutti