VI and MAILX (was: Re: question about vi)

[Kent Forschmiedt]

[ when entering mail in mailx, ~v at the beginning of a line
  will invoke the editor named in the VISUAL variable.
  Dave Decot suggests this alias: ]
>
>alias mailto 'vi /tmp/mail.$$ && | /usr/bin/mailx \!* < /tmp/mail.$$'

I would revise that to:

alias mailto 'vi /tmp/mail.$$ && | /usr/bin/mailx \!* < /tmp/mail.$$; rm -f /tmp/mail.$$'

Assuming that the ";" works the same in csh as in sh.

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