Re: can't interrupt (CTRL-C) when dowloading large message
On 2007-08-26 08:57:22 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Sunday, August 26 at 11:46 AM, quoth Louis-David Mitterrand:
>> On a slow imap connection it would be nice to be able to interrupt a
>> large message download.
>>
>> When accidentally selecting a multi-megabyte message for display it seems
>> impossible to interrupt mutt with CTRL-C. I have to "killall mutt".
>
> CTRL-\ will work (but it has the same effect as `killall mutt`)
It's even worse: it sends a SIGQUIT instead of a SIGTERM. This means
no clean-up in general (well, I don't what Mutt does exactly) and a
core dump is generated.
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