On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 10:30:42AM +0200, Tom wrote: [snipped what amounts to "mutt hangs when trying to start vim"] I had the same problem a few days ago. I use signify for composing my signatures, so my ~/.signature is a named pipe. The signify process which fed the pipe had died, so vim waited forever to get the signature. Restarted signify, and all was well. BTW, I use a little script to quickly restart signify in case of config changes or the case described above. HTH-HAND, Nick -- x----------------------------------------------------------------------x | Benford's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law: | | Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.| | -- Gregory Benford. Foundation's Fear. 1997 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Nicolas Kratz <nick@ikarus.dyndns.org> <n_kratz@cs.uni-frankfurt.de> | x----------------------------------------------------------------------x
#!/bin/bash # signififo # Copyright (C) 2003 Nicolas Kratz <nick@ikarus.dyndns.org> # Distributed under the GPL # On Debian systems, see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for details. LOCKFILE=$HOME/.signature.lock-`hostname` if [ -f $LOCKFILE ]; then kill `cat $LOCKFILE` fi signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature &
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