Re: Abort current operation
At 6:14 AM EDT on October 27 Martin Julian DeMello sent off: It'd be nice if mutt had an 'abort' key, It does. Control g -- loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. Robert I. Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/ PGP Key: http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/pgp.html
Re: Abort current operation
Also spracht Rob Reid... At 6:14 AM EDT on October 27 Martin Julian DeMello sent off: It'd be nice if mutt had an 'abort' key, It does. Control g You misunderstand. I want to abort the reading of mailboxes in midscan, and return to the calling stage, the direct motivation being the painful delay when I accidentally hit enter over a large mailbox. ^G won't do this (yes, I did go back and try it again g) m.
Re: Abort current operation
Rob Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 27 Oct 1999: Control c? Control Alt Delete? Pulling out the plug? An axe to the disk? Some of the "solutions" from Windoze also work in UNIX, but I don't have any folders that big to actually test them... I do. :-) Ctrl-C doesn't work, Mutt ignores it at that point, and the others aren't graceful... I suppose a killall -9 would do the trick, but I wouldn't say that is graceful either. :-) Yes, I've missed the "abort reading the mailbox" function too on occassion. Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy scifi, the Corrs / Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Fish
Re: Abort current operation
At 12:30 PM EDT on October 27 David DeSimone sent off: Rob Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 6:14 AM EDT on October 27 Martin Julian DeMello sent off: It'd be nice if mutt had an 'abort' key, It does. Control g It doesn't abort reading a huge folder. In fact, nothing does. Once you start to read that 20 MB folder, you're going to be there until it's done. Control c? Control Alt Delete? Pulling out the plug? An axe to the disk? Some of the "solutions" from Windoze also work in UNIX, but I don't have any folders that big to actually test them... -- "They think they can make fuel from horse manure. Now I don't know if your car will be able to get thirty miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning." - Billie Holliday Robert I. Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/ PGP Key: http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/pgp.html
Re: Abort current operation
Bennett Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 27 Oct 1999: I am in the habit of killing those with "^Zkill %1". Mutt doesn't have TSTP turned off while it's reading messages, and when it catches the TERM it exits gracefully. This works if you're starting Mutt from a shell, but is not really an alternative when you're launching Mutt with "xterm -e mutt" like me. Or is there some way to get that work there too? In any case it's a bit of a kludge. Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy scifi, the Corrs / Mathematician, n: A machine for converting coffee into formulas.
Re: Abort current operation
1999-10-27-14:09:27 Mikko Hänninen: Ctrl-C doesn't work, Mutt ignores it at that point, and the others aren't graceful... ^Z works; puts it to sleep, and a simple term (e.g. "kill %1") will finish the job. Is this graceful enough? I dunno. If I hadn't found it, I'd sure be a lot more annoyed by this mutt behavior. -Bennett
Re: Abort current operation
1999-10-27-15:02:01 Mikko Hänninen: This works if you're starting Mutt from a shell, but is not really an alternative when you're launching Mutt with "xterm -e mutt" like me. Or is there some way to get that work there too? How about ctrl-leftmousebutton and select "Send TERM Signal" from the menu that pops up? In any case it's a bit of a kludge. I won't disagree. My only point was that it would have annoyed me a lot more if I hadn't found the kludge. Perhaps if you can find a comparable kludge that works for you, you won't feel the need to take the effort to fix the problem:-). -Bennett
