🚀 go-pugleaf

Daniel Jacobson writes:
 > I am trying to say that I have a special situation due to UTS Unix or
 > something, where I type "g" to get new mail, and vm hangs, so i hit
 > ^G.  [the new message has been appended to INBOX at this point, and
 > $MAIL is now empty] then i hit "g" and get a `no new mail' message.  i
 > have to send myself mail & try again until i dont hang [50% of the
 > time]...
 > 
 > all i ask is that no matter when one hits ^G, there shouldn't be a
 > state where INBOX can be already appended too [by VM], but the summary
 > buffer denys it...

This is going to be tough to do.  If I use any more inhibit-quit's
inside VM, the core dumps and train schedules are going to start
arriving in my mailbox again... :-)

Better would be to figure out what it is about Emacs' subprocess code
that gives your UNIX grief and fix it. what kind of hang are we
talking about here.  Child dies but parent doesn't notice?