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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
