Re: Background mail composition
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:30:26PM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:20:38PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > Surely the neatest way to get a different window is to fire off an X
> > aware editor like xvile, it's text mode but launches its own window.
> > Just tell mutt to use xvile as your editor and it's done for all cases
> > that invoke the editor.
>
> But wouldn't that cause mutt to hang until you'd finished editing?
> What I want is to be writing a message in one window/screen/job while
> reading mail in another.
>
Not if you put an '&' at the end of the command to launc the editor.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)