Re: too many mutts
On Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 21:50:33 +0000, Patter wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:00:19 +0100, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> > Is there a script I could make that I could use to start mutt, and if
> > mutt were already running, then it could just take me to the already-
> > running instance of it, instead of starting a new mutt?
>
> Hacked up from a little perlish I had hanging around
Close but not as good as you could do - your script essentially
says "If mutt is running exit". A better approach would be to
use GNU Screen to allow the user to re-attach to a running mutt:
alias mutt='screen -D -R -S mutt mutt'
This means create a secreen session with name mutt (-S) running
wth command mutt - if one is already running with that name detach
it first.
The only drawback is this will get fiddly if you're running
nested screen sessions...
Steve
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