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Date:      Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:52:40 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, dannyman@enteract.com, dannyman@dannyland.org, obrien@NUXI.com
Subject:   Re: mutt-emacs-sh and curses (was Re: pine4 and mutt)
Message-ID:  <19980717095240.G566@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980716234906.A4268@physik.fu-berlin.de>; from Axel Thimm on Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 11:49:06PM %2B0200
References:  <19980712012442.C26465@enteract.com> <19980716013329.A1330@nuxi.com> <19980716234906.A4268@physik.fu-berlin.de>

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On Thursday, 16 July 1998 at 23:49:06 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> According to the mutt user list, /bin/sh from FreeBSD is `broken' in such a
> way, that e.g. a spawned emacs as an editor doesn't get a ^G through. Instead
> mutt aborts the current command and emacs is detached.

See this reply?  It was written in an Emacs editor invoked from mutt.
Before I started the reply, I pressed ^G several times.  In other
words, the information from the list is wrong.

> On a side note, mutt in an xterm cannot be resized due to the ncurses version
> in -stable (also from the mutt list). Since there is a ncurses port, could
> mutt depend on this also?

I didn't think that that would change things much.  Do you have
evidence that it would help?

Greg
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