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From: jerry@ORA.ORA.COM (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Novice question about editing messages
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Date: 11 Apr 91 13:33:00 GMT
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In <APPEL.91Apr10161658@sting.xcf.Berkeley.EDU>, Shannon D. Appel wrote:
> In article <1991Apr10.230215.21858@midway.uchicago.edu> jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino) writes:
> >... I want to have repl always come up in my editor of
> >choice (which is vi, no flames please)....
> 
> You just need to modify your .mh_profile by adding the following line:
> 
> Editor: /usr/ucb/vi

As explained in the mh-profile man page she mentioned, that line will set
the default editor for *all* MH commands to be vi.  In case you only want
repl to use vi, try this line instead:

	repl: -editor vi

BTW, one of the problems with having vi as the default for comp, forw,
and dist is that you won't get the handy "prompter" editor for filling in
the header -- for each component, you have to hit ESCAPE, move down, delete
empty components you don't want and go into insert mode for others, etc.
In the MH Nutshell Handbook, I showed a vi key map that helps a lot:
	map! ^N ^[/: $^[A
When you're in text-input mode in the message header and you type
control-N, it moves you to the end of the next empty header component
and puts you into text-input mode at the end of it.  (The ^[ are ESCAPE
characters, entered by typing control-V ESCAPE.)  I guess you could also
add another key map for "delete this line and take me to the next one."

--Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com, uunet!ora!jerry