Getting Helix to work with mutt

[tehabe]

I'm trying to get mutt to work with Helix but it seems not so easy to do that. The biggest problem I'm having that Helix doesn't recognise the emails I create in Helix from mutt as emails, a reason could be, that mutt does not give the the temporary file an .eml extension.

Just a string with "mutt" in the beginning, but adding this to the language definition didn't work.

This is how it currently looks like:

[[language]]
name = "mail"
scope = "source.mail"
file-types = ["mail", "eml"]
injection-regex = "mutt|mail|eml|email"
soft-wrap.enable = true
# text-width = 80 < this is the default
soft-wrap.wrap-at-text-width = true
formatter = { command = "mailfmt" }
auto-format = true

[waddie]

injection-regex is for syntax highlighting one language when it’s embedded in another. Like code snippets in Markdown (e.g. the TOML section below), or Markdown-formatted comments in code files.

If the files have no extension, you probably want a glob pattern in file-types.

e.g. if you set mutt’s tmpdraftdir to /tmp/muttdrafts/. Then in your Helix languages.toml:

[[language]]
name = "mail"
file-types = ["mail", "eml", { glob = "/tmp/muttdrafts/*" }]

Any file opened from that location should set the language to mail.

[tehabe]

Thank you.