Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-06 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 05.10.2007 (10:05), Christian Ebert wrote: * Eyolf Østrem on Friday, October 05, 2007 at 01:07:39 +0200 a lilyponder ;) Yep! The following works in a dirty way -- It didn't quite work for me, still. I may play around with different flags and such, but in the end, it isn't really *that*

Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-06 Thread Christian Ebert
* Eyolf Østrem on Saturday, October 06, 2007 at 14:39:41 +0200 It didn't quite work for me, still. I may play around with different flags and such, but in the end, it isn't really *that* important to me. But thanks for the script anyway. I was more interested in Screen, but this works here

Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-05 Thread Christian Ebert
* Eyolf Østrem on Friday, October 05, 2007 at 01:07:39 +0200 a lilyponder ;) On 04.10.2007 (13:13), Gary Johnson wrote: On 2007-10-04, David Champion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cat external-reply #!/bin/sh DRAFT=$1 # hard-link our own copy of the draft so that mutt can remove original

Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-05 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2007-10-05, Christian Ebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Eyolf Østrem on Friday, October 05, 2007 at 01:07:39 +0200 a lilyponder ;) On 04.10.2007 (13:13), Gary Johnson wrote: On 2007-10-04, David Champion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cat external-reply #!/bin/sh DRAFT=$1 #

Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-05 Thread Christian Ebert
* Gary Johnson on Friday, October 05, 2007 at 07:40:03 -0700 On 2007-10-05, Christian Ebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following works in a dirty way -- you are prompted for address and subject both in the old and new instances of Mutt, but this should be solvable by macro. I made it for GNU

Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-04 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 03.10.2007 (21:57), Joseph wrote: It would be nice if it was possible to start a New Email or Replies in a new shell session and close it automatically when a mail is sent, without, going through postpone. Is it possible? Sometimes I have to look up/collect some information from

Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-04 Thread Charles Killian
It would be nice if it was possible to start a New Email or Replies in a new shell session and close it automatically when a mail is sent, without, going through postpone. I was missing that functionality too. I solved it the other way around: open a new instance of mutt. When

Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-04 Thread David Champion
It would be nice if it was possible to start a New Email or Replies in a new shell session and close it automatically when a mail is sent, without, going through postpone. Is it possible? Check the archives -- possibly a few years back. People have posted examples of how to do this using an

Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-04 Thread Joseph
On 10/04/07 10:59, David Champion wrote: It would be nice if it was possible to start a New Email or Replies in a new shell session and close it automatically when a mail is sent, without, going through postpone. Is it possible? Check the archives -- possibly a few years back. People

Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-04 Thread David Champion
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.

Re: Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-04 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2007-10-04, David Champion [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Generate Reply / New Mail in new shell session

2007-10-03 Thread Joseph
It would be nice if it was possible to start a New Email or Replies in a new shell session and close it automatically when a mail is sent, without, going through postpone. Is it possible? Sometimes I have to look up/collect some information from several older emails so this kind of