Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!nrc From: nrc@cbnews.ATT.COM (N. Richard Caldwell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: including messages while composing mail Message-ID: <15354@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 8 Apr 90 22:55:50 GMT References: <1990Apr8.165409.29992@DSI.COM> Organization: AT&T Network Systems - Columbus, Ohio Lines: 39 From article <1990Apr8.165409.29992@DSI.COM>, by syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein): > 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.... [stuff deleted] > So, no, there is no way of doing this, short of writing your own version > of readmsg that supports the sorting order. Hmmm. It's not so difficult to discover the mail file order. When using vi, I just check the message number with... :!frm -n The -n option causes frm to give the message number that readmsg requires. Then it's just a matter of... !!readmsg N ...where 'N' is the number of the message you want to read in. The current line is replaced with the contents of message N. Works just spiffy for me. Of course, I'm still clear back on Elm 2.1 so this may have changed. -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't drive too slowly." Richard Caldwell AT&T Network Systems nrc@cbnews att!cbnews!nrc -- "Don't drive too slowly." Richard Caldwell nrc@cbnews att!cbnews!nrc