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Re: Mutt 1.5.16 editor exit status brain damage



On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:17:53PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > Nonsense.  If Mutt behaves badly dealing with a common application
> > that people use in conjunction with Mutt, especially one Mutt
> > specifically intends to be compatible with (like vi), then Mutt is
> > broken.
> > 
> that's absurd. if you have such an utterly broken program and still want
> to use it, wrap it in a script. if you lose data then, it's you own
> fault.

It's not broken.  The application developer has the right to use any
exit status he wants.  Mutt CAN NOT make assumptions about what the
exit status means.  The user is a USER.  They should not have to
write code to make Mutt behave sanely.

It's far from absurd, it is in fact the only reasonable option, and I
have no doubt that is why it was designed that way from the start, and
persisted that way for 9 years.


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