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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
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Posted: Fri Dec 28 14:25:44 1984
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Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
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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
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