#1638: Fails silently if $EDITOR fails
Changes (by brendan):
* component: mutt => display
Old description:
> {{{
> Package: mutt
> Version: ?
> Severity: normal
>
> [NOTE: this bug report has been submitted to the debian BTS as
> Bug#209244.
> Please Cc all your replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .]
>
> From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Fails silently if $EDITOR fails
> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:45:11 -0400
>
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> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.5.4+20030817-1
> Severity: normal
>
> If $EDITOR fails, an error message is printed, but there is no pause
> before
> the screen is redrawn, so it passes unnoticed, and the user is dumped
> back
> to a command prompt with no error message.
>
> typescript attached.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux there 2.6.0-test1 #16 SMP Mon Jul 14 16:39:13 EDT 2003 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
>
> Versions of packages mutt depends on:
> ii exim4-daemon-light [mail- 4.22-4 Lightweight version of the
> Exim (v
> ii libc6 2.3.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared
> libraries an
> ii libidn9 0.1.14-2 GNU libidn library,
> implementation
> ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-2 Shared libraries for
> terminal hand
> ii libsasl2 2.1.15-5 Authentication abstraction
> library
>
> -- no debconf information
>
> --
> - mdz
>
> --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV
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> Script started on Mon 08 Sep 2003 12:43:23 PM
> EDT=0A=0D=1B[0m=1B[27m=1B[24m=
> =1B[Jthere% =1B[KT=08TERM=3Dvt100 EDITOR=3Dnonexistent mutt -F /dev/null
> fo=
> o=0D=0D=0A=1B(B=1B)0=1B[1;24r=1B[m=0F=1B[?7h=1B[?1h=1B=3D=1B[24;1H=0D=1B[?1=
> l=1B>=1B[1;24r=1B[m=0F=1B[?7h=1B[H=1B[J=1B[23BTo:
> foo=1B[?1h=1B=3D=0DSubjec=
> t: foo=0D=1B[J=1B[24;1H=0D=1B[?1l=1B>sh: line 1: nonexistent: command not
> f=
> ound=0D=0A=1B[?1h=1B=3D=1B[?1h=1B=3D=1B[1;24r=1B[m=0F=1B[?7h=1B[H=1B[J=1B[2=
> 3BAborted unmodified
> message.=0D=1B[J=1B[24;1H=0D=1B[?1l=1B>=0D=1B[0m=1B[27=
> m=1B[24m=1B[Jthere% =1B[K=0D=0D=0A=0AScript done on Mon 08 Sep 2003
> 12:43:2=
> 9 PM EDT=0A
> --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV--
>
>
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> >Fix:
> }}}
New description:
{{{
From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fails silently if $EDITOR fails
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:45:11 -0400
}}}
If $EDITOR fails, an error message is printed, but there is no pause
before
the screen is redrawn, so it passes unnoticed, and the user is dumped back
to a command prompt with no error message.
typescript attached.
{{{
Script started on Mon 08 Sep 2003 12:43:23 PM
EDT=0A=0D=1B[0m=1B[27m=1B[24m=
=1B[Jthere% =1B[KT=08TERM=3Dvt100 EDITOR=3Dnonexistent mutt -F /dev/null
fo=
o=0D=0D=0A=1B(B=1B)0=1B[1;24r=1B[m=0F=1B[?7h=1B[?1h=1B=3D=1B[24;1H=0D=1B[?1=
l=1B>=1B[1;24r=1B[m=0F=1B[?7h=1B[H=1B[J=1B[23BTo:
foo=1B[?1h=1B=3D=0DSubjec=
t: foo=0D=1B[J=1B[24;1H=0D=1B[?1l=1B>sh: line 1: nonexistent: command not
f=
ound=0D=0A=1B[?1h=1B=3D=1B[?1h=1B=3D=1B[1;24r=1B[m=0F=1B[?7h=1B[H=1B[J=1B[2=
3BAborted unmodified
message.=0D=1B[J=1B[24;1H=0D=1B[?1l=1B>=0D=1B[0m=1B[27=
m=1B[24m=1B[Jthere% =1B[K=0D=0D=0A=0AScript done on Mon 08 Sep 2003
12:43:2=
9 PM EDT=0A
}}}
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/1638#comment:1>
