On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 07:35:09AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> Tim --
> 
> ...and then Tim said...
> % 
> % Somewhere between version 1.2.5i and 1.3.27i the behavior of SigInt
> 
> How?

  Sorry I wasn't clear.  With 1.2.5i, hitting ^C quits mutt completely
without prompt.  With 1.3.27i, it asks if I really want to exit mutt.

  I have set quit=yes in my .muttrc, so I would assume ^C should honor
that as well.

  Thanks,

  Tim

> 
> % changed.  I am used to hitting ^C to get out of mutt (the main reason
> % is that I have a script that looks through a number of folders and ^C
> % has a different exit code than "q".  "q" takes me to the next mailbox
> % and ^C exits the script completely).
> 
> While I think that's a kinda wonky approach :-) I agree that that
> expectation seems fair.
> 
> % 
> % Is this the intended behavior?
> 
> Yes, I should think that killing mutt with ctrl-c would cause a different
> error code from exiting or quitting, but it is certainly plausible that
> successfully answering 'y' to the prompt then implies the success of that
> action and so maybe you need a SIGTERM to generate an errored exit.
> 
> It would help if you said exactly what behavior you have seen both under
> 1.2.5 and 1.3.27 :-)
> 
> % 
> % Thanks,
> % 
> % Tim

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