Decrement the mtime of the tempfile during edit-message to make mutt

notice changes taking less than one second.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/editmsg.c b/editmsg.c
index 67299739..e6c603f5 100644
--- a/editmsg.c
+++ b/editmsg.c
@@ -91,8 +91,11 @@ static int edit_one_message (CONTEXT *ctx, HEADER *cur)
     goto bail;
   }
 
-  if (stat (tmp, &sb) == 0)
-    mtime = sb.st_mtime;
+  if ((rc = stat (tmp, &sb)) == -1)
+  {
+    mutt_error (_("Can't stat %s: %s"), tmp, strerror (errno));
+    goto bail;
+  }
 
   /*
    * 2002-09-05 me@sigpipe.org
@@ -109,6 +112,8 @@ static int edit_one_message (CONTEXT *ctx, HEADER *cur)
     goto bail;
   }
 
+  mtime = mutt_decrease_mtime (tmp, &sb);
+
   mutt_edit_file (NONULL(Editor), tmp);
 
   if ((rc = stat (tmp, &sb)) == -1)