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Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi??? |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 12:29:04 +0000 |
Hi Ken,
> Paul Vixie wrote:
> > prompter is what i was thinking of.
Well remembered. I've used that too a long time ago.
For quick short emails I prefer the imperative style of giving
recipients and subject on the command line rather than interactive of
being prompted as that's a bit slower.
> > i could say ^D and something would ask "What now?" and i'd give it
> > some instruction that would _then_ start my visual editor of choice.
Like `~e' or `~v' escapes, for ed(1) and vi(1) at the start of a line
when entering body in mail(1) to upgrade when editing is required.
> > i think it should still be prompter, so that we have no editor
> > assumption or dependency.
>
> That sounds reasonable to me. Thoughts, objections?
+1. It also matches
Editing the Draft with prompter
https://rand-mh.sourceforge.io/book/mh/senove.html#Edipro
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Cheers, Ralph.
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- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, (continued)
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ken Hornstein, 2018/03/17
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, David Levine, 2018/03/17
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Vixie, 2018/03/17
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ken Hornstein, 2018/03/17
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, David Levine, 2018/03/17
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Paul Fox, 2018/03/17
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ken Hornstein, 2018/03/17
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???,
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- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, David Levine, 2018/03/18
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- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, David Levine, 2018/03/18
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Robert Elz, 2018/03/18
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Bakul Shah, 2018/03/18
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/03/18
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Robert Elz, 2018/03/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???, Ken Hornstein, 2018/03/19
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