Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!ogicse!littlei!bobd!bobd From: bobd@bobd (Bob Dietrich) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Novice question about editing messages Message-ID: <1737@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> Date: 10 Apr 91 02:26:41 GMT References: Sender: news@littlei.UUCP Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon Lines: 23 In article jerry@ORA.ORA.COM (Jerry Peek) writes: >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. What I do is use the prompter for initial message creation, and then use vi for editing the message (if necessary). If I do edit the message, the unused fields have already been deleted. This is accomplished with the following entries in my .mh_profile: prompter-next: vi Editor: prompter I'm not even sure that the second entry is necessary. Bob Dietrich Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon (503) 696-4270 (FAX: 696-4210) usenet: bobd@bobd.intel.com or uunet!intelhf!ijf1!bobd or tektronix!ogccse!omepd!ijf1!bobd or tektronix!psu-cs!omepd!ijf1!bobd