Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session
On 2007-10-04, David Champion <dgc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Something along these lines might work. Untested. It's been years
> since I used xterm, so I'm not sure if the syntax below is correct for
> expressing what xterm should run. Might need to add sh -c and quoting,
> or somesuch. Maybe you need some more dressing, but perhaps this will
> get you started.
>
> If you want this only sometimes, you'll need to macro-fy the muttrc
> bits.
>
>
> $ cat external-reply
> #!/bin/sh
> DRAFT="$1"
> # hard-link our own copy of the draft so that mutt can remove original
> ln "$DRAFT" "$DRAFT.tmp"
I don't think that will work. I think you'll need to copy it. The
reason is that mutt overwrites its temporary files with zeros before
unlinking them.
Regards,
Gary