Subject: Re: Copying and pasting into Pine

From: Rahul Dhesi <[email-masked]>
Date: 19 Mar 1995 11:45:23 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Robert
Lehmann) writes:

>I want to paste a copy of the same paragraph into several different 
>letters that I'm e-mailing via Pine. Is there a way to make a text that I 
>can copy over and over, rather than just cut and paste it once, and then 
>have to rewrite it?

You may find this hard to do while staying within pine.  I was not able
to make pine preserve its text buffer (into which ^K saves text) across
messages, i.e. the buffer is apparently emptied once you begin
composing a new message.  You should be able to put text in a file
before you invoke pine, then read it in with the ^R command into a
message being composed.  So a possible sequence is:

1. Invoke a text editor (e.g. pico) to put text in a file.  Save
   file and exit editor.
2. Invoke pine.  While composing a message, put the cursor in the
   body of the message and use the ^R command to read the file from step
   1 into the body of the message.

>Also how do I copy and paste from another text into a Pine document?

By 'pine document' did you mean a message being composed while using
pine?  If so, see step 2 above.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <[email-masked]>
"please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Lehmann)
Date: 19 Mar 1995 09:23:08 GMT

Thank you,
Robert Lehmann