Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!beta!hc!ames!sunybcs!ansley From: ansley@sunybcs.uucp (William Ansley) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: make Rmail reply only to sender Message-ID: <5896@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 12:15:28 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.5896 Posted: Thu Oct 15 12:15:28 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 07:43:48 EDT References: <836@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM> <5875@sunybcs.UUCP> Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP Reply-To: ansley@gort.UUCP (William Ansley) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 33 Keywords: GNU-emacs rmail Summary: We have a winner! In article <5875@sunybcs.UUCP> ansley@gort.UUCP (William Ansley) writes: >Does anybody know of a way in standard GNU-emacs, under 4.3 BSD UNIX, using >Rmail to reply to only the sender and not to everyone on the Cc: list. > >[...] > Well, it tuns out I didn't look hard enough before I appealed to the net. I got the answer below the day after my posting, and not only does it work, it's documented! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- It exists. 1r does the trick just fine... -- cca >>>>>>>>>> | harvard >>>>>> | bloom-beacon > |think!rlk Robert Krawitz rutgers >>>>>> | ihnp4 >>>>>>>> . --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To make what Robert Krawitz says a little clearer: The r command with a numeric argument igores the Cc: list. E.g., use M-1 r (ESC-1 r) or C-u 1 r. Works like a charm and the secret is revealed if you look at the help info on r (C-h-k r). Of course it would be nice if this feature were also described in the Rmail mode help screen! William H. Ansley, Graduate Student csnet: ansley@buffalo.csnet uucp: ..!{allegra,decvax,watmath,rocksanne}!sunybcs!ansley bitnet: ansley@sunybcs.bitnet, csdansle@sunyabvc usmail: Computer Science Dept., 226 Bell Hall, SUNYAB, Buffalo, NY 14260