Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!asjl From: asjl@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Suggestion for next Elm release Keywords: long Message-ID: <1989Oct1.220222.24169@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 1 Oct 89 22:02:22 GMT References: <819@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> <170@uwm.edu> <7877@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Reply-To: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton) Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. Lines: 29 I may be being naive about this business of using "elm" to reply to new articles but this is how I handle it (or should I say make the computer do the work!). I simply have an "rn" macro thus: @m |/usr/lib/sendmail asjl & (If your underlying mail agent is other than sendmail this is not for you but you get the idea!) When I see an article I want to reply to I hit '@m' inside "rn" and carry on reading the news. This has two advantages: 1) I can continue in "news reading" mode with my brain on auto pilot. 2) I see any subsequent related articles before I throw in my two (cents|pence|...) Later, when inside 'elm' I see a mail message to which I can just compose a normal reply with whatever 'elm' features I normally use. Now can we leave "elm" alone please (:-) andy -- EMAIL = Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz PHONE = +64 4 721 000 x8978 FAX = +64 4 712 070 SNAIL = Computer Science Dept, Victoria University, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND