Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpsemc!bd From: bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: replies Message-ID: <960006@hpsemc.HP.COM> Date: 22 Jun 88 21:29:53 GMT References: <3625@okstate.UUCP> Organization: HP Technology Access Center, Cupertino, CA Lines: 33 GOOG ?? (goog@a.cs.okstate.edu) writes: > I was just wondering if there was some way to get one of those neat little > '>' signs at the beginning of the line of a message that you reply to. With this set up below, I just type `reply' (instead of `repl') and it puts me in the editor with the old message all bracketed nicely. 1. Make a symbolic link from `repl' to `reply'. cd /usr/local/bin/mh # or wherever you keep your MH programs ln -s repl reply If you don't have symbolic links, use a hard link: ln repl reply 2. Now add the line to your .mh_profile: reply: -nocc me -anno -inplace -filter mhl.reply -editor vi I actually use an editor setting of `emacs', but if you were using Gnu Emacs like me you wouldn't be asking this question. (I don't use `reply' per se any more; Gnu Emacs has one built in.) 3. In your MH Path directory (probably $HOME/Mail), put this file there and call it "mhl.reply". Remember to strip off the leading tab. It too is just one line: body:component="> ",offset=0,compwidth=0 I think John Romine came up with this a long time ago. -- bd