On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:04:22PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 29Mar2010 17:19, Nicolas Williams <nicolas.willi...@sun.com> wrote: > | I saw in the archives that this is a bit of an FAQ, and it seems that to > | this day there's not much of an answer, sadly. > > Here's what I do: > set edit_headers=yes > set editor=muttedit > set autoedit=yes > > Muttedit is here: > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/bin/muttedit > > Now, muttedit mostly just runs the reply process in a screen session; it does > some work to give the session a good name.
Very nice sed scripting. > If I complete the reply immediately (as now), it's all seamless. > > But if I want to defer the reply for later, I simply detach from screen > and reattach later. Here's this message in progress: But what happens on detach in the parent mutt (edit abort?)? (I've tried it, and the screen does not appear to start. > Does that workflow address your needs? Almost, but see the other e-mails in this thread. Nico --
