Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Changing AMS headers and more. Message-ID: Date: 19 Sep 90 23:11:26 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 49 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 19-Sep-90 Re: Changing AMS headers an.. MAG@ibm.com (1459) > 1) There is no cursor anywhere in the window, if I start to type, the > letters appear on the "CC" line. If I hit cursor return, nothing happens > (the invisible cursor seems to still be on the "CC" line.). The only > way it works is if I click the mouse button on one of the header fields, > then the cursor appears and cursor return works fine. Hmm... Sounds like the input focus is somehow strangely set. You can probably use the compound command mechanism to set the input focus, but I'm not certain about the details. > 2) How can I add a default value ("yes") to the new header?. The > text-self-insert doesn't seem to work. Hmm... The textview object doesn't sem to provide an insert-string proctable entry. You could create a file called ~/.YES containing the string "yes" and then use sendmessage-insert-file /foo/bar/.YES, but that would be an amazingly stupid thing to have to do... > I like to suggest that AMS should work similar to XMH. XMH has > ~/Mail/components file, where the user can customize the compose > headers. Can anyone from CMU comment on this suggestion? That's a good idea. Pending someone implementing that, however, you can use the Save/Restore Draft mechanism to create a "draft" message file that has the headers you want. Then you can use the init file mechanism to bring up this "draft" file whenever you want it. (Actually, that will only work for the "fresh" sending, not for replies, sigh...) In principle it might be possible to do this with the messages.tpl file, but I doubt that it is possible in practice, for various reasons. With some patches, however, it might well be posible to do all of this with a customized messages.tpl template. > How can I make messages come up faster?. It seems to take forever on a > IBM/RT AIX 2.2.1. I have long since given up on answering questions like this. The program is definitely slower to come up than it should be, but whether it is a minor or a major annoyance seems to depend on a whole host of factors from CPU to memory size to OS to file system. On my SparcStation, it comes up tolerably fast. (Oddly enough, the biggest performance problem I have these days is that, when running on a Graphon X terminal at 9600 baud, it takes forever to Quit when you choose the "Quit" menu, and I have absolutely no idea why this is the case. It exits quite quickly on my Sun's main screen.) Hope the above was helpful... -- Nathaniel