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From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: wish list - edit message
Message-ID: <481@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 89 13:07:11 GMT
References: <255@vector.Dallas.TX.US>
Reply-To: phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller)
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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In article <255@vector.Dallas.TX.US> chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>What I would like to do is just edit that one message, and the standard
>mail reader does this very nicely.  Using Elm to do this is extremely
>awkward.
>
>Am I alone in this ... or is this feature something others might find
>helpful in a future Elm release?

This is indeed a feature that I would also very much appreciate.  I find my
self going in using the editor to simply edit the raw folder file and
invariably my fat fingers can figure out a way to mess it up for future elm
access.

Another reason for wanting to do this is that we keep various "help" type
information publically available as folders - it provides a convenient method
for menu type accessing utilizing tools that users are already familiar with.
Maintaining this becomes more of a hastle than it should if small corrections
need to me made to messages in these folders.

-phil
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