[15368] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.0J: MH (comp, repl, forw, etc)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Chuang)
Sun Aug 10 14:22:05 1997
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:22:02 EDT
From: "William Chuang" <wchuang@MIT.EDU>
System name: way-mo-money
Type and version: SPARC/4 8.0J (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
use comp/repl/forw (MH programs) on an 8.x Sun, with
vi as the MH editor.
What's wrong:
If you use vi as the MH editor, and generate an error
with a shell escape (say you ":r" a non-existent file,
or do some other function which returns non-zero),
then when you exit vi, "comp" returns that non-zero
exit status to "whatnow", which then exits with:
whatnow: problems with edit--draft left in /mit/wchuang/XMAIL/drafts/#2
Because it has exited, I have to use "send" by hand.
However, since it has renamed my draft by prepending
it with a # sign, I must specify the entire path to
the draft. Rather annoying, I must add.
What should have happened:
Prior behavior (on 7.x Suns) was to continue through.
This is highly preferable.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
