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From: jjohnson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James R Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Help me
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Date: 16 May 91 23:55:18 GMT
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In article <1991May13.010900.26296@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>ssowder@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Sean Sowder) writes:
>>One final question, how do I include a file.  I saw alot of info about
>>this but little made since to me.  No easy ~r filename.ext huh?  Is
>>there a command in vi to include a file?
>The 'built-in' or 'none' editor (text appender) supports the ~r and ~m
>syntax.
>
>When in an editor, using the 'readmsg' command with no arguments should
>cat the current message.  (In vi typing !!readmsg on an empty line should
>insert the current message )


My question and/or problem is similar and I have been waiting for the
subject to surface.   I use emacs as my default editor (I specified
this in my .elmrc) because that is the editor that I use day to day and
am most familiar with.  Emacs command ctrl-x ctrl-i is the command 
sequence that I invoke to include a file when I am nomally running 
emacs.  The problem comes in when I try to invoke that sequence when I
am running emacs from within elm.  It does recognize the command, but is
unable to find the file, even though the file exists in my work directory.
What I usually have to end up doing is using my system's version of Columbia
MM and dump the file from my work dir to the email.  
Suggestions, comments, questions?
Thanks
Jim

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