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From: blythe@sgi.com (David R. Blythe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: "mailbox: "  does it Do the Right Thing?
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.020323.13932@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 02:03:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.172559.21771@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu writes:
>I love mailbox, which is new with the 3.3 release I just installed on my
>4d25tg.  However, it has one undesirable behavior that I have noticed:
>it seems to trap all interrupts.  Though this is useful in some places,
>it disallows aborting a reply or message.  That is, if I run Mail from
>a wsh, then change my mind about sending it, I can hit ^C twice, and it
>cancels the message.  Since the mail window opened by mailbox traps
>interrupts, however, I can't do this.  The only way to abort the reply
>is to close the window, which may not do what you want, since you might
>want to delete things that you've read, or something like that, before you
>quit.

You can also use the tilde escqpe ~q to abort at letter.