Hey all, I've encountered a weird problem -- I'm setting up xbuffy to launch new terminals, and those terminals to open up mutt pointing at a specific mailbox.... sometimes, though, when you pass the mutt command off to the terminal (in my case I tried using rxvt and gnome-terminal) sometimes the -e command is ignored in weird ways.
Here's an example... These commands work fine, and the push is honored (sorry for long lines): rxvt -e mutt -f '~/Mail/Inbox' -e 'push <display-message>' rxvt -geometry 80x80 -e mutt -f '~/Mail/Inbox' -e 'push <display-message>' but if I tweak the geometry such that the terminal is wider than 81 (-geometry 80x82 for example) then suddenly the push is ignored and <display-message> isn't executed. But if I run the following: rxvt -geometry 80x82 -e mutt -f '~/Mail/Inbox' -e 'not-a-command' mutt tells me: "Error in command line: not-a-command: unknown command" this implies that mutt is still seeing what I'm passing in via -e... so why does my 'push <display-message>' fail in this situation? I tried using gnome-terminal as well (with it you can use the --command="foo" parameter) but mutt never, ever does what I tell it with the -e flag through gnome-terminal -- but if I pass it something it doesn't understand, like before: gnome-terminal --command="mutt -e 'not-a-command'" I get a message saying that not-a-command is invalid.. but the following: gnome-terminal --command="mutt -e 'push d'" silently does nothing. Does anyone understand why my push commands are failing? Thanks for your help! -ben
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