Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:1159 comp.unix.questions:8752 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!watmath!sahayman From: sahayman@watmath.waterloo.edu (Steve Hayman) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: strange timing problem in /usr/ucb/Mail Message-ID: <20326@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 11 Aug 88 05:33:24 GMT References: <13@catwoman.ACA.MCC.COM> <12936@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: sahayman@watmath.waterloo.edu (Steve Hayman) Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, U. of Waterloo Lines: 23 Chris Torek discusses problems with Mail's "~h" and TIOCSTI and suggests >Either way, just changing Mail will not do it. > >(Another possibility is to make Mail run in cbreak mode, and have it >simulate the kernel's tty input editor. There is or was code in Mail >to do this. This solution is at least as unsatisfactory as TIOCSTI.) Another another possibility is to arrange that "~e" and "~v" in Mail let you edit the whole message, headers and all. We did that here (actually we added "~E" and "~V" commands, to edit the whole message as opposed to just the text), which sort of eliminates the need for this TIOCSTI stuff. (and which also lets you add neat headers like "Return-Receipt-To:".) If anyone's interested in these changes, let me know and I can try to make them into a patch. ..Steve -- Steve Hayman Math Faculty Computing Facility University of Waterloo watmath!sahayman sahayman@math.waterloo.edu sahayman@water.bitnet