Jason Helfman wrote: > I am not certain if this is expected behavior, or not, but after > looking through the list and not finding anything on this, I thought > I would write in. > > If I am in mutt (the reader we all know and love more than family, > sometimes), and do a shell escape by using the '!' character. By > simply hitting return, it will exit out of mutt. Is this the > expected behavior for the "shell execution"? When you hit return at the "Shell command: " prompt mutt will run a shell for you. Mutt hasn't exited, it has spawned a sub-shell and is waiting for you to exit that shell. Check out pstree when you're in that sub-shell. It should show you that mutt is a parent of your shell. Exit your shell and you'll be returned to mutt. If you've hit ! by accident and don't want to run a shell command, use Ctrl-G to cancel the prompt. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost
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