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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: question about vi
Message-ID: <89@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 13:14:05 GMT
References: <611@nvuxl.UUCP> <730001@hpfelg.HP.COM> <647@mccc.UUCP> <3772@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <3772@fluke.COM> strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) writes:
>Is there a way of invoking vi whenever you call the mail program, so you don't
>have to type ~v each and every time?

Not really. The easiest solution would probably be to write a shell
script which invokes vi on a temp file if invoked with arguments,
and then feeds the temp file to mailx when you exit vi. Drawback is that
this would not work when replying from reading mail.

There are other mail systems, such as elm, which do what you want.
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