> All I was able to find is a solution with "Ctrl-z" putting it in a
> background and starting new session. That is not really a solution.
Agreed. That's not it.
> I'm sure somebody has similar macro worked out, it is just a mutter of
> finding it :-/
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" "$DRAFT.tmp"
(
## execute this in a bkgrounded subshell,
## allowing the original shell to exit
xterm -e "exec mutt -H '$DRAFT'"
rm -f "$DRAFT"
) &
exit 0
.muttrc:
set editor="external-reply"
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