Hi Patrick!
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:56:13PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > Do you mind formating your message with a width < 80 chars?
>
> no, thats no problem.
>
> > Depending on what your want try either <shell-escape> or <pipe-message>
>
> Hm. That and what Dave Evans wrote works, at least partially. Now the
> script is launched, but it does not work as expected. It starts the
> script which outputs:
>
> User has asked for a return receipt. Send one? ([yes]/no):
>
> and waits for an input ("read yn"), but mutt adds its "Press any key to
> continue...". So it seems that mutt already answers the question (what
> it shouldn't do). Also if I do press return to that question, it
> restarts the script and the game starts from the beginning. Endless,
> until i somehow force it to quit (not that easy).
>
> The (for now very basic script):
> #!/bin/sh
>
> TEMP="`mktemp`"
> trap "rm -f $TEMP" INT ABRT EXIT
> tee > $TEMP
>
> QUESTION="User has asked for a return receipt. Send one? ([yes]/no): "
> echo -n $QUESTION
> read yn
>
> (I know that this is far from beeing complete, but to test how things
> would work it is enough)
If you have used <pipe-message> I think your stdin has changed to the
messages you piped. And read expects your answer from that filehandle.
So you might try explicitly setting your tty with read yn </dev/tty
This is how I do it for scoring people interactively.
regards,
Christian
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