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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    Re: evim and encoding
From:       Andre Berger <uzscd5 () uni-bonn ! de>
Date:       2002-05-30 21:46:26
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* David T-G <davidtg-muttusers@justpickone.org>, 2002-05-30 16:23 -0400:
> Andre --
> 
> ...and then Andre Berger said...
> % 
> % * David T-G <davidtg-muttusers@justpickone.org>, 2002-05-30 15:54 -0400:
> % > 
> % > ...and then Andre Berger said...
> % > % 
> ...
> % > % set editor="evim"         # simple mode of vim 6.1 on linux 
> ...
> % > % With this setup, I'm asked if I want to "update encoding" of each
> % > 
> % > Hmmm...  Before you go blaming your setup, you might check the most
> ...
> % 
> % Yes, it thinks the file is newer (and it is). I guess the problem is
> 
> So it *is* your setup :-)

Yeah! 

> % evim (a gui program) is not running on the same terminal as mutt, in
> % fact in no terminal.  
> 
> OK.  So when evim fires off, does mutt return immediately, or does it
> wait for evim to finish?  In the case of the former, can you tell evim
> not to fork but to instead remain in the foreground for as long as the

Bingo! "-f" does the trick!

> window is open and *then* exit and return?  That will get mutt to wait
> until the update is done (and should take care of the abort_unmodified
> bit since mutt won't look to the message file until it *has* been
> modified) and should take care of your needs.
> 
> 
> % 
> ...
> % All mails are on the same local ext2 partition, so I don't think that
> % should be the problem.
> 
> Right; you've pinned it down above.  Good enough.

Thank you very much, David.

-Andre

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