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Subject: Re: [9fans] getting mail working
From: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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Date: Tue,  9 Sep 2003 23:38:17 -0600
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> before shutting down each time i do a Dump, which allows me to pick up
[...]

when using my laptop (and generally everywhere else, since I've gotten
used to it) I like to run a separate acme session for reading mail in
the background, giving me more desktop real estate for code.

the way to do this is to start acme's Mail once and dump the window
into a file, say acmemail.dump.  then create a function in my
profile that runs acme and starts Mail off the dump file.  in my case
it's:

	fn amail { acme -l $home/acmemail.dump }

at this point you can safely cover the Mail acme window with other
stuff -- just right-click on the face of the new mail arriving to
bring it back on top.

one slight issue with this is that you need to start a second 'plumber'
before running acme again, otherwise messages and files will open in
both acme sessions.  this won't cause any trouble for the editor itself...

andrey