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Re: Background mail composition



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.

        - Andrew