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Re: Thought I was posting !

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From: Chris Sherman
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:54
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In <Bxu5H0.7xx@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End) writes:


>nn-meisters,

>Here's a tricky one for ya.

>Once in a while after composing a long agonizing emacs message, I do the 
>contlol-X, control-C, only to my horror to see :

>Send letter ? (s)

>Is there any way to recover from this ? If I am on one of the better computers
>(Macintosh, SUN :) its not a big deal to copy and paste into a new 
>"f" follow-up message. In the hell that is DOS or UNIX, I would have to retype
>the entire message to change it from a "reply through mail" to a "follow-up". 

>Thanks much,

I am assuming that your problem is that you wanted to post, and not send
a letter, right?

The solution is simple.  Re-edit the file (e command), and then tell the
editor to save the file somewhere.  Then tell nn to forget about
sending the letter (CNTL-G at the send letter prompt or something like
that).  Then do the post thing, and when nn puts you in the editor,
pull back your old file.

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