Hmmm, in my 2 years or so of using mutt, I've never had what you describe happen. Greg On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:49:38PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Yes, Greg, this works if I know I'm going to abort before saving the message body in a tmp file. But, what about after that? > > In fact, this just happened to me. I was replying to your message, saved the tmp file , and pressed y to send. Mutt replied "no recipients specified." > Well, excuse me, but I had used the reply command, so I don't understand why it would have lost that data. > > There are other ways and times in which I want to abort after writing the tmp file, but postponing seems to be the only option. > > Gregory Nowak writes: > > From: Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> > > > > Hi Janina. > > > > This may not be the best way, but it works for me. > > > > When you decide that you don't want to send a message, exit the editor. It will ask you if you want to send, hit q. It will ask you if you want to postpone it, hit n, and it will throw it away. The only advantage to this method seems to be that you won't end up with a postponed file in your home dir. Hth. > > Greg > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 04:54:58PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > I've been working in mutt recently. I have a few questions for which I have been unable to find answers in the documentation: > > > > > > 1.) Unsorting--or whatever it may be called--When I restrict my view using a semi-colon search, how do I undo it in order to return to the full > > > index listing? Ctrl-t doesn't do it. What does? > > > > > > 2.) If I start to compose a message, or start to forward one, how can I change my mind and abort the procedure? I find I'm unable to exit composing > > > a message. I am hacking around this problem by using capital P for postpone, but this surely isn't the proper way. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > > Technology Research and Development > > > Governmental Relations Group > > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > > > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
