Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!lwall From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame,net.religion,net.news.b Subject: Re: What to do about all these "quotes" of articles Message-ID: <1627@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 14:25:44 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1627 Posted: Fri Dec 28 14:25:44 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Dec-84 00:56:06 EST References: <1308@eosp1.UUCP> <6730@brl-tgr.ARPA> <602@cbosgd.UUCP> <858@watcgl.UUCP> Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 45 Xref: watmath net.followup:4318 net.flame:7414 net.religion:5181 net.news.b:1044 Summary: In article <858@watcgl.UUCP> dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) writes: > ... > Now if only rn/Pnews could be convinced to do the same. It goes to the > trouble to ask me if I really want to use the editor that I told it > to use via an environment variable, presumably in case I feel like using > a different editor right at this moment, but doesn't give me a choice > of whether the original article is included! Arghh. With all due respect, may I suggest that this is an inaccurate observation? I understand that the rn manual entry is a wee bit overwhelming, but the help facility has the following line: f,F Submit a followup article (F = include this article). With regard to the editor question (or should that have been the editor question question...), there are some of us who work multiple systems, and have to use several different editors. Which editor I want to use at the moment depends on which one I've been using most recently. Besides, just on this system, my favorite editor has schizophrenic tendencies, with corresponding name changes. But to each his own. If you don't like the feature, copy Pnews to your private bin directory and comment out the question. That's why it's a shell script. Be sure that NEWSPOSTER points to your own Pnews. If you feel that nobody on your system wants the feature, feel free to comment it out in the public copy. In defense of putting in the feature in the first place I can only say that it is usually much easier to chop out a feature than to add it back in. By the way, this is slightly mis-documented, but if you add %A to the end of your NEWSPOSTER command, Pnews will pass the file name of the current article as the second filename to your editor, so that you can have it in an alternate window, or as an alternate file. Likewise the MAILPOSTER command. Enough--if I say more I shall be rambling. In fact, I probably shouldn't have said the previous sentence. In fact, I probably shouldn't have said the previous sentence. In fact, I probably shouldn't have said the previous sentence. In fact, I probably shouldn't have said the previous sentence. In fact!@%$% Stack overflow in DWIM. rebooting... Larry Wall {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall