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Article #473Re: Thought I was posting !
From: Heidi de Wet
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 08:02
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 08:02
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jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End) writes: >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". There are a whole lot of options you can enter at this prompt (I have all of them listed above the prompt, presumably because I'm not an expert user :-) The options include w)rite, which then prompts you for a filename to append the article to. Another option is e)dit, which puts you back in the editor, from where you could also save to a temp file. Perhaps a p)ost option should be added, though. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Heidi de Wet >>> FREE TSAFENDAS <<< heidi@ucthpx.uct.ac.za and give him back his job
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo!ucthpx!heidi From: heidi@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Heidi de Wet) Newsgroups: news.software.nn Subject: Re: Thought I was posting ! Message-ID: <1992Nov18.080210.2780@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> Date: 18 Nov 92 08:02:10 GMT Article-I.D.: ucthpx.1992Nov18.080210.2780 References: <Bxu5H0.7xx@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Organization: Dept of Elec Eng, UCT Lines: 22