On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 11:11:05AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [H]ow can I avoid the sh subshell and get a bash subshell > instead straight off. I don't want to have to press enter and > then type exit after. I solved this by putting the following in .muttrc macro generic ! "<shell-escape>\n" I had to replace: macro generic <f1> "!less ~/bin/doc/mutt/manual.txt\n" with: macro generic <f1> "<shell-escape>less ~/bin/doc/mutt/manual.txt\n" -- Greg Matheson Chinmin College, Taiwan [EMAIL PROTECTED]