Hi Jason, control-g is the default "escape" sequence in Mutt. From the manual: > ^G is the generic “abort” key in Mutt. In addition to the line editor, it can > also be used to abort prompts. Generally, typing ^G at a confirmation prompt > or line editor should abort the entire action.
According to this link, it is not possible to re-bind the ^g operation: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47773/rebinding-clear-prompt-in-mutt . Regards, -- Joel Buckley On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 10:53:59AM -0400, Jason Franklin wrote: > Greetings: > > I have another question! > > Let's say I am looking at the index and I hit the 'm' key to compose > a new message. Mutt then issues a prompt like this... > > To: > > Hitting the <Escape> key doesn't abort this process like I would expect. > > The way I get around this is to hit <C-c> and then just tell Mutt "No" > when it asks if I want to exit. > > That is, if I start a process that has a series of prompts, I would > expect for the <Escape> key to abort the action I'm performing. > > Is there a way to have the <Escape> key get me out of a command-line > prompt? > > Thanks! > > -- > Jason
