Re: Background edit in new terminal window

2021-02-20 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día sábado, febrero 20, 2021 a las 12:54:46p. m. +0530, Chinmaya Nagpal escribió: > Hi, > > I'd like to be able to launch an editor in a new terminal window and > continue browsing my emails, like the contrib/bgedit-detectgui.sh script > does but with my editor wrapped in a terminal window

Re: Background edit in new terminal window

2021-02-20 Thread Jakub Jindra
Hi, If you're familiar with tmux you can try solution from [1]this github issue. I believe this should work with mutt as well. 1. https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/2713 Best, JJ On 2021-02-20 09:12, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día sábado, febrero 20, 2021 a las 12:54:46p. m. +0530,

Re: Background edit in new terminal window

2021-02-20 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 09:30:00AM +0100, Jakub Jindra wrote: If you're familiar with tmux you can try solution from [1]this github issue. I believe this should work with mutt as well. No need for that, for mutt 1.14.0+. See and the

Re: Background edit in new terminal window

2021-02-20 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 12:54:46PM +0530, Chinmaya Nagpal wrote: I'd like to be able to launch an editor in a new terminal window and continue browsing my emails, like the contrib/bgedit-detectgui.sh script does but with my editor wrapped in a terminal window instead of with gvim. My editor

Re: Background edit in new terminal window

2021-02-20 Thread Chinmaya Nagpal
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 09:21:17AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: I don't use that terminal (or editor), but usually a terminal doesn't detach when you run it. So you could try: set background_edit set editor = "alacritty -e nvim" It works! I'm a bit embarrassed-- I was certain that this