Async editor for mutt

mutt-editor

#!/bin/sh
# Async editor for mutt
# Usage: set editor=/path/to/this/script
# It spawn editor in a new background terminal so I can continue reading mail
# while editing.
# The title of the terminal is set to "mutt-edit", this allow me to make it
# floating in i3 with:
# for_window [title="mutt-edit"] floating enable

set -e

if test -z "$MUTTEDIT"; then
    # copy and edit in a new location since mutt will remove it's draft file
    # ($1) after this shell script exit.
    draft=$1.mutt-edit
    cp $1 $draft
    xfce4-terminal --title mutt-edit -e \
        "/bin/sh -c \"MUTTEDIT=yes mutt -e 'set autoedit=yes; unset signature' -H $draft; \
            rm -f $draft\"" &
else
    vim -c ':set ft=mail spell spelllang=en,fr' $1
fi

neat idea. I couldn’t quite get it to work, but mutt now has a background_edit setting for composing mail in the background. Also a little clunky, but it gets the job done.