[oclug] Mutt Pager Preview Pane

Raymond Wood raywood at magma.ca
Thu Mar 21 17:20:17 EST 2002


On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 04:06:19PM -0600, Raymond Wood imagined:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 03:52:46PM -0500, Dan Cardamore imagined:
> > Mike asked me about this so I may as well share it with
> > everyone.  If you add this to your muttrc file you can get a
> > preview pane setup similar to gui readers in mutt.
> > 
> > set pager_index_lines=6
> > 
> > Dan
> 
> Sounds interesting - didn't work for me though.  The error
> message says pager_index_lines=6 isn't a recognized .vimrc file
> option.  Any idea why I would get this error?
> 
> I'm running version 1.3.27-5 on Debian(sid), FWIW.
> 
> Cheers,
> Raymond

Further to this:

If I load the command manually from within Mutt i.e.
  :set pager_index_lines=6
then it will work.

I still get an error saying that the .vimrc syntax is wrong
though.

Cheers,
Raymond
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