"mailbox: " does it Do the Right Thing?
Dave Carek
eddc at opus.lerc.nasa.gov
Mon Jun 17 23:21:14 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jun13.172559.21771 at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> shenkin at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu writes:
>I love mailbox, which is new with the 3.3 release I just installed on my
>4d25tg. However, it has one undesirable behavior that I have noticed:
>it seems to trap all interrupts. Though this is useful in some places,
>it disallows aborting a reply or message. That is, if I run Mail from
>a wsh, then change my mind about sending it, I can hit ^C twice, and it
>cancels the message. Since the mail window opened by mailbox traps
>interrupts, however, I can't do this. The only way to abort the reply
>is to close the window, which may not do what you want, since you might
>want to delete things that you've read, or something like that, before you
>quit.
>
Since your using Mail you can use "~q". The following is an entry from the
Mail man page.
~q Abort the message being sent, copying the message to
``dead.letter'' in your home directory if save is set.
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