Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!motcid!gulik
From: gulik@motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Ability to Edit Received Messages
Message-ID: <4067@lemon11.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 90 20:08:41 GMT
References: <8@happym.wa.com>
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Organization: Motorola Inc. - Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL 60004
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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.


I sometimes edit messages before I save them too.  What you
want to do is make sure Elm has been configured to include
the E)dit command.  When you read your mail, delete or save
everything but the message you want to change, resynchronize
with the '$' command, then hit 'E' to enter vi with that mail
message.

I often do this when I receive an automated reply from
another system, and I want to put something about the
contents on the Subject: line.


-greg

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