On 2000.11.22, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"john slee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> i've been using mutt for a while now. one thing that's always bugged me
> (well, pretty much the only thing, now that i know about mime_forward),
> is that there's no way that i can find to have a "compose" window as a
> kind of separate entity such that i can refer to other messages *while
> composing my message*.
>
> i could start another mutt session, but -R only seems to apply the
> readonly flag to the first mailbox i look at. it also feels like i am
> approaching the problem in hand (seeing other messages while composing)
> from entirely the wrong angle.
You can get most of what I expect you want with:
set editor="cp %s %s.2; (xterm -e mutt -e 'set editor=vi' -H %s.2; rm %s.2) &"
That's starting another session, but it has no need of -R, and the
session is strictly instantial -- it lasts only as long as the
composition does, and it pops its own terminal.
> when mutt detects the child exiting (via sigchld or something), it
> brings you back to the appropriate screen whereupon you can decide to
> send the message, postpone it, abort it, or whatever.
You don't get the compose menu in the original mutt instance with the
above $editor, but frankly, that's preferable to me.
This approach also doesn't allow the parent instance to know whether a
message has really been replied to.
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-D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
