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From: converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Donna Converse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xmh (Reply Insert Filter)
Message-ID: <8909162004.AA22122@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 89 20:04:33 GMT
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Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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>   Our version of xmh (X11 version 3.1)  can't insert the old 
> message into the reply window. It just insert the filename of 
> the old message to the window.  

Hmm?  X11 version 3.1?  Anyway, read about the ReplyInsertFilter
under "Customizing xmh" in the xmh man pages.  The insert button
doesn't insert the message until you define a filter to do it.

> P.S.  I'd like to hack the code if this is indeed a xmh bug.  

Well, would "cat" be a better default filter than "echo" ?  If you
come up with a interesting solution, send it to xbugs@expo.lcs.mit.edu.

This is what I use --

xmh*ReplyInsertFilter:	/users/converse/Mail/replfilter

And replfilter contains this --

# Skip headers, then print out the body lines prepended with "> "
sed -n '
:header
/^$/b eohdr
n
b header
:eohdr
n
b body
:body
s/^/> /p
n
b body' $*