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From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Ability to Edit Received Messages
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.153101.2644@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US>
Date: 13 Jul 90 15:31:01 GMT
References: <8@happym.wa.com> <11296@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
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In article <11296@hydra.gatech.EDU> rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
>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?

Tell me this is a joke.

First off, I believe elm pipes the message to the pager.  But even if it
created a temp file whose name was an argument in the exec of the pager,
using vi as your pager, all you'd wind up doing is editing a temp file,
not a segment of your mail folder (file).
-- 
Rob Bernardo, Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US
phone: (415) 827-4301