Re: Mutt viewers in the background / Job control

2003-11-09 Thread Bill Moseley
For the archives: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 04:16:23PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: Common question: how do I make the viewer a child of init so that when mutt exits it's not a zombie waiting on the viewer or closing mutt doesn't kill the viewer? Well, one answer would seem a script called

Mutt viewers in the background / Job control

2003-11-08 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm using a modification of mutt_bgrun where a .mailcap entry might be: image/png; /home/moseley/bin/mutt_bgrun display '%s'; test=test -n $DISPLAY and mutt_bgrun is basically: file=$(mktemp); cp $2 $file ( $1 $file; rm $file ) That allows control to return to mutt while the viewer is