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From: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
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Subject: Re: Ability to Edit Received Messages
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Date: 12 Jul 90 21:24:53 GMT
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In article <8@happym.wa.com>, irv@happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe) writes:
|> As near as I can figure out, elm doesn't support editing received
messages.  I
|> often wish to remove parts of messages before saving them, or, in the
case of
|> messages received from co-workers here, to add notes to myself on how
to deal
|> with whatever.
|> 
|> Is support for this -- like the "ed" or "vi" commands to the program mail --
|> actually there?
|> 
|> If not, would other users also like to see it?  I imagine it would be pretty
|> easy to implement.

What if you just set your pager to vi?  I was contemplating this myself,
but haven't done it yet.  Does anyone have a good reason why this would 
be a bad idea?

Robert

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