[Gllug] Mutt

[Vincent AE Scott]

Xander D Harkness(xander at harkness.co.uk)@Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 04:48:10PM +0000:
> 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.
 

oooo, i'd completely forgotten about that functionality in screen.
not quite perfect, but it'll do. cheers.

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