Re: mutt 1.5.16 released
On 16Jun2007 12:46, Mike Hunter <mhunter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| What do people think about allowing the user to specify in their muttrc
| what values do and do not constitute a fatal error coming from their
| editor?
It's needless:
#!/bin/sh
real-editor ${1+"$@"}
xit=$?
case $xit in
3|4)
xit=0
;;
esac
exit $xit
| It seems to me mutt *should* react if it is told there's been a
| fatal editor failure, and given that the standard means of communicating
| such an error has occurred is inherently broken, we should allow for
| another means.
A simple "notice-editor-failure" boolean setting would be plenty, and
probably desirable given the flamewar.
Fine tuning can be done with a script as above, but
yes-I-care,no-I-don't would cover a lot of users.
Cheers,
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