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Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.1 of Fri Jun 26 1987 on ho5cad (usg-unix-v)


In article <890@bakerst.UUCP> kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent) writes:
>In article <1392@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> xev@hstbme.mit.edu.UUCP (Xev Gittler) writes:
>>Does anybody have, or know of, a version of variant of Berkeley Mail that 
>>allows inclusion of letters into replies, complete with those cute 
>>little '>' or whatever?
>>
>You don't say what kind of machine are you on.  Do you have mailx?
>If so, it's very easy to include "those cute little '>' or whatever."
>...
>Once in the editor, I enter the following command:
>  :v/^$/s/^/ > /

Well, yes, but doesn't  it make you kind  of wish that they'd be stuck
in there automatically?  I know I always wished that and never found a
way  with  "Mail"  or  "mailx"  except by  the  method  you suggested.
Shortcomings like that are (minor) reasons I don't use them anymore.

Unless you're absolutely stuck on the  Berkeley Mail user interface, I
suggest looking  into "elm".  It  lets you specify the  prefix string.
It also has a snazzier user interface and  is a superset of the things
available in "Mail"/"mailx".   (Well, more  accurately, I never  found
anything missing, so it was a superset  at least for  the things I was
interested in doing.)  Version 1.7 of "elm"  is soon to appear in some
usenet group.  Watch "comp.mail.elm" to find out for sure which one.

Another possibility, if you happen to be an emacs user (or are willing
to convert) is to use the built-in mail and news handlers that most of
them have.  The major advantages of this are:  (1) fairly easy to make
minor  changes in details  you don't like,  and (2) you  never have to
escape to the editor, since you're already in it  [no startup time, no
"oops, one more change...get back in there"].

Like    I said, neither of  these   duplicates  the Berkeley Mail user
interface,  but  I  imagine   most  people  are  more   interested  in
functionality anyhow.

	Bill Carpenter
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