Background edit in new terminal window

[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 is nvim and my terminal is alacritty.

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"

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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