Re: [RP] argh. split-screen help.

[Jonathan Walther]

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In the top window I run mutt, in the bottom window I run this:

while : ; do fetchpop -arp ; sleep 60; done

I specially hacked fetchpop to only show the Subject: and From: lines of the
mails as they are downloaded and no extraneous crap such as
"There were 0 messages in your POP box" 

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Martin Samuelsson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:45:50AM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> > So a more pertinent question is, what would the UI of the GIMP look like if
> > it *was* designed to play nicely without the rat.  Then one of us could hack
> > gtk or whatever.  Theres also the problem with my mail downloader + mutt;
> > I'd like mutt to take up all but the top 4 lines of the screen, and the mail
> > downloader just the bottom 4; that way I could see if new mail came in 
> > without
> > losing half the screen.  Maybe theres a better way to achieve that result; 
> > I'll
> > have to check into it.
> 
> how does this downloading thing work? doesn't mutt tell you when you have new 
> mail? would there be possible to execute ratpoison with the new echo command 
> to display a message each time new mail arrive?


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