[Gllug] Mutt

[Xander D Harkness]

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 16:40, Vincent AE Scott wrote:
> David Damerell(damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk)@Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 04:21:59PM +0000:
> > On Monday, 10 Dec 2001, Vincent AE Scott wrote:
> > >proverbial yoyo.  But, having seen the light, and switched over to mutt,
> > >this is one of the few features which appears to be missing.
> > 
> > Normally vi, which I think you say you're using as an external editor,
> > saves recovery files which you can recover with 'vi -r'.
> 
> yes, i know about that, but does mutt know to look for the recovery
> files?  pine with pico spots them, and will let you know about them the
> next time you try and compose a message.  save you having to go fishing
> arround for them
>  
> > Another option would be to use 'screen'.
> 
> not sure what you mean by that.  can you elaborate?
> i connect to a shell server using ssh over a dialup, to read my email, i
> cant see ow running screen at the local end or far end will make much
> difference.
> 
Running screen on the remote computer should hold your session until you
get connectivity again.  You can then reconnect to the screen session
that you were composing your mail in before.

Cheers
Xander
> -vince
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