Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20210825135316.nzk_z%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: |Stephen Isard wrote in | <28540-1629898986-118...@sneakemail.com>: ||On Wed, 25 Aug 2021, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |s-nail| \ ||wrote: ||> Stephen Isard wrote in ||> <23078-1629848900-410...@sneakemail.com>: ||>|That is what I was hoping you could explain. Why does losing the IMAP ||>|connection stop s-nail from reading the temp file back into its buffer ||>|when editing is done? ||> ||> I have problems to parse this Stephen. What is going on? ||> What is "reading back the temp file"? || ||1) You start writing a message in s-nail ||2) You call '~v' to bring up an emacs window with the content of the || message so far ||3) You edit the message in emacs, save, and quit. ||4) Case 1: The imap connection has not dropped while you were in emacs || You are returned to the normal s-nail prompt and '~p' shows || the message that you saved from emacs || Case 2: The imap connection was dropped while you were in emacs || You see an ERROR prompt and '~p' shows the message as it was || before you called emacs | |Really?? Hmm, interesting. Well if there was an "error" during |editing then the new file is not used. I will try to reproduce it |this evening.
I cannot reproduce this with vim. I do not have emacs here. ||My understanding is that when you do '~v' to use an external editor on a ||message you are writing, s-nail creates a temporary file and calls the ||external editor on that file. Then when you quit the external editor, ||s-nail normally reads the content of the temporary file back into an ||internal buffer, where you can see it with '~p'. However, if there has ||been an imap disconnection while you are working in the external editor, ||'~p' just shows the message as it was before the editor was called. ||Any work done in the editor is lost. So s-nail has not read the content ||of the temporary file back into the internal buffer. | |Maybe the editor sees the alarm signal and exits non-0? I will |try this evening, and report back. Really not. I can hold an IMAP with imap-keepalive=10 and kill -ALRM like grazy, if i come back via :wq then the new file content is used. And vim ... does have an ALRM handler, but it seems to be used only temporarily. Microsoft false alarm, SMTP GSSAPI i-do-not-know, IMAP alarm no problem .. what is going on, Stephen? --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
