mutt/2061: wish: mail composition crash recovery
>Number: 2061
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>Category: mutt
>Synopsis: wish: mail composition crash recovery
>Confidential: no
>Severity: normal
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: mutt-dev
>State: open
>Keywords:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Sep 08 15:10:30 +0200 2005
>Originator: Oswald Buddenhagen
>Release:
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>Environment:
>Description:
if your tty gets a HUP while composing a mail (say, your inet conn breaks or x
crashes or whatever), it is tedious to continue composing the mail. of course
it works at all only if your editor has built-in crash recovery, but most
reasonable ones have.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
when starting to compose a mail, create a state file with the name of the file
passed to the editor (and all headers if edit_headers is unset). when sending,
postponing or discarding the mail, delete the file. if mutt starts up and the
file is still there, resume the mail composition (after a confirmation).
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