On Mon, Jan 7, 2002, Samuel Padgett wrote: > > vim -r will give you a list of recoverable temp files. Rarely fails > > me. > > Yes, but then how do I actually send the message. Cut-n-paste > into a new composition buffer? > > I was hoping Mutt had some facility to notice /tmp/mutt-* files > that are unsent and allow you to resume composition--something > like what Gnus does. If Emacs crashes while you're composing an > email in Gnus, the message is automatically stored in a "drafts" > group. It then only takes a few keystrokes to get back to exactly > where you were.
AFAIK, it is up to the editor, not mutt. When in vim, go to ':help recover' and it will tell you what you need to know. IOW you can do it right from within vim. -Ken