Re: [ANNOUNCE] mutt 1.5.16 released
On 2007-06-16 13:59:13 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> Only if you're a programmer. Lots of people who use Mutt are not.
Only people who use vi under Solaris 10 or SCO are affected. And one
can assume that these people are programmers (and for the very few,
if any, who are not programmers, one can assume that they know how
to ask for some help).
> Sure, but are you suggesting that the user should edit the message
> *again* to make sure his message was updated?
Mutt should make the difference between an unchanged message and a
nonzero exit status from the editor.
> Using this script method, the user has (or may have) no reason to
> think his edit session failed. Mutt always gets an exit status of 0,
> and does not check to see if the file was changed. The user will
> naturally assume that everything went fine, and send the message.
This is a bug.
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