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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: including messages while composing mail
Message-ID: <1990Apr8.165409.29992@DSI.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 90 16:54:09 GMT
References: <7230003@hpdtl.HP.COM>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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peterm@hpdtl.HP.COM (Peter Maxwell) writes:
>A feature I would REALLY like in ELM is the equivalent of the Berkeley mail
>~f or ~m command (without having to use editor=none).  There have been many
>times when I have been forced (or think I have) to save messages to a file
>and then read them back in, if I want to reply to one message but have
>another included also.

>Am I missing something?  I'm not aware of any way of doing this cleanly.
I think I am missing something here....

If you are using some editor other than none, you are dependant
on that editor for insertion of lines.  That editor is not part of
Elm, so how can Elm add commands to it.

~f and ~m access the current message base and include a message into
the buffer.  Of course, readmsg can do this for you, but you need to
know the message number.  However, here's the rub, the message number
is relative to the current sorting order, and readmsg uses the ordinal
within the file, independent of sorting order.

So, no, there is no way of doing this, short of writing your own version
of readmsg that supports the sorting order.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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