Background editing

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:16:18AM +0100, Angel M Alganza wrote:
>If I understand correctly, I allows you to compose email in an editor 
>on another tmux window (or screen or graphical editor, but I don't use 
>those), forking it out of Mutt.  I guess that Mutt would then be free 
>to use to, for example, check another email, while still composing in 
>the forked window, or maybe even start composing a new email on a third 
>window?

Yes, that's right.

>I've tried it out with the bgedit-screen-tmux.sh script, but it fails. 
>I think the problem is that the Mutt version I'm running is a bit old 
>(1.10.1).

Background editing was added in version 1.14.0.  A concise list of new 
features by version is at 
<https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/raw/stable/UPDATING>.  More verbose 
descriptions of notable features can be found under 
<http://www.mutt.org/relnotes/>.

>is there any pre-compiled binary I could use before trying to compile 
>it myself?

I don't know if Devuan is package-compatible with Debian, but I believe
Debian has backported 2.0.2 into buster-backports.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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