On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:10:43PM -0400, Mike Hunter wrote: > My one concern is that I can't seem to find any documentation that ANY > common editor actually endorses a return value that signifies a fatal > error...but maybe we should encourage them :) SCO are dying anyway, so I don't think that OS really merits consideration. Also, getting Sun to fix what most people would regard as a broken behaviour of their editor is probably a good thing, regardless of what decision is taken regarding the exit status in mutt. For what it's worth, my opinion is that 99% of programs regard a non-zero exit as an error; this makes it a de-facto standard. The fact some programs are brain-dead doesn't really excuse this. On the other hand, if mutt still has the support for checking if a message has been modified or not, why is this thread even existing? Use that. Job done. This discussion's been going on for a couple of days now, and AFAICS seems to be going around in circles. -- Paul
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