Quoth Jose M Vidal on Sunday, 28 November 2010:
> Hi,
> While opening and viewing mutt attachments, mutt is not available
> until I close the attachment app (evince, chrome, etc)
> Is there any way to open attachments while keeping the mutt terminal 
> available?
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> --
> jm

Yes, with caveats.  I use the '&' on the end of a command in .mailcap to
release the terminal back to mutt, but mutt will immediately delete the
temporary file containing the attachment, so I usually add a sleep as
well to give the external application time enough to load it first.  For 
instance:

text/html;      firefox %s & sleep 5; test=RunningX;

Firefox has five seconds to load the HTML attachment before it gets
deleted.  That isn't always long enough, unfortunately.

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