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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
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Reply-To: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton)
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.
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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
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