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From: schafer@peyote.cactus.org (Raymond C. Schafer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: To: Line Problem - Elm 2.3 PL4
Summary: @ == kill ?
Message-ID: <1345@peyote.cactus.org>
Date: 8 Jul 90 19:04:03 GMT
References: <281@fdls.odag.or.gov>
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas Unix Society, Austin, TX
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In article <281@fdls.odag.or.gov>, dougw@fdls.odag.or.gov (Doug Walker) writes:
> In elm 2.3, patch level 4, keying an @ as part of a domain based address at
> the To (mail to) prompt, deletes the characters typed and places the cursor at
> the first column of the line.  This same thing occurs when you Edit the
> To: line under Edit Headings.  I was previously at Elm 2.3, patch level 1, and
> I did not experience this problem, but I cannot be absolutely certain that I
> keyed in an @ on the To: line.

Uh, I came across that problem earlier and it wasn't due to elm,  rather
it was due to the default setting of the "kill" character.  What are you
using, sys V?  I thought so.... put a line in your .profile to say:
stty kill '^u'
and that should do it.  (use carret-u not ctrl-u)
If that doesn't work, mail me a reply and let me know how you are
invoking elm (using a user agent or from a shell prompt).
Also, if you type a backslash ( \ ) before the "@" character, that
should also work.

Ray 

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