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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm Problem
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.151830.14382@DSI.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 90 15:18:30 GMT
References: <250@abode.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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eric@abode.UUCP (Eric C. Bennett) writes:
:First off, it doesn't seem to like the 'ex' editor. If the users default
:editor is ex he cannot send a message with elm. Here is an example. The 
:user is in elm, he uses the 'm' command to enter a message and then gets
:the ':' prompt. After the user uses the 'a' command to add what he wants 
:to the message he needs to exit the editor and write and send the file.
:Well, the problem is that the user cannot get out of the editor. You are
:supposed to be able to hit the delete key and get the ':' prompt again
:but it doesn't seem to work. Nothing I try will make the prompt appear.
:But, elm works fine with the 'vi' editor.
The problem here is not with Elm, but with how you are using ex.
Ex ends append mode with an escape.  DEL, your interrupt key, happens
to work also, but the proper code is escape.

Note, your ex is broken, as it sounds like it is not resetting
the interrupt trap correctly.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                          Voice: (215) 947-9900
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