Subject: Re: cut and paste

From: [email-masked] (DearOldDad)
Date: 11 Oct 1996 14:08:30 GMT

G. Nylund ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I have a couple messages in my saved folder. I want to cut sections out of
: each and compose a new message including those cuts.  I can't seem to find
: a way to do that.  Any suggestions?

Save them as files with the (E)xport command, then while composing (with
pico) ^R (control + r) to "read in" those files, then ^K to cut out what
you do NOT want.  Maybe someone else has a simpler way, but that works for
me.  Hope this helps.  BYE

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From: [email-masked] (Harry Slaughter)
Date: 12 Oct 1996 06:52:47 GMT

If you're using vi, you can use ":r <file>" from the edit mode to insert
entire files into the text. Just edit a file to you're liking before
mailing, and insert the whole file. 

If you aren't using Vi, you're really missing out.

Harry 

: 			Aradia

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From: [email-masked] (DearOldDad)
Date: 11 Oct 1996 14:16:26 GMT

DearOldDad ([email-masked]) wrote:
: G. Nylund ([email-masked]) wrote:

: : I have a couple messages in my saved folder. I want to cut sections out of
: : each and compose a new message including those cuts.  I can't seem to find
: : a way to do that.  Any suggestions?

: Save them as files with the (E)xport command, then while composing (with
: pico) ^R (control + r) to "read in" those files, then ^K to cut out what
: you do NOT want.  Maybe someone else has a simpler way, but that works for
: me.  Hope this helps.  BYE

Followup to my prior post ... "paste" is called (U)ncut in pico, the
command is ^U (control + u), so if you want to move stuff around do a ^K
then move the cursor where you want it and ^U.  Hope that's clear?

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From: "G. Nylund" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:19:39 -0500

I have a couple messages in my saved folder. I want to cut sections out of
each and compose a new message including those cuts.  I can't seem to find
a way to do that.  Any suggestions?

			Aradia

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From: Gregor J Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:16:42 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, G. Nylund wrote:

 | I have a couple messages in my saved folder. I want to cut sections out of
 | each and compose a new message including those cuts.  I can't seem to find
 | a way to do that.  Any suggestions?

There has been at least one other similar request recently. However,
Pine does not have a straightforward way of doing this. What you need
to do is look at each of those messages and export them into a file,
and then, when composing the new message, read in the file and use
mark (ctrl^ to set a mark followed by cursor movement to mark text)
and cut to remove those parts you do not want, or mark and paste to
move those parts that you want to move. A nice sophistication is to
'view' the message first before export (save). This way you will not
save the headers, if you do not want to subsequently have to remove
them.

Yours

Gregor
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Gregor J Jones                                    Tel: 617-638-5336 (Lab)
Department of Physiology                               617-282-4484 (Home)
Boston University School of Medicine              Fax: 617-638-4273
Boston MA 02118

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From: [email-masked] (Holger Lillqvist)
Date: 17 Oct 1996 14:44:58 GMT

Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:19:39 -0500, G. Nylund wrote:
: 
: I have a couple messages in my saved folder. I want to cut sections out of
: each and compose a new message including those cuts.  I can't seem to find
: a way to do that.  Any suggestions?
: 

It has been suggested here that you first export the two messages and
then read in them into a third, and cut what you don't want. Can be a
mess, if the messages in question are long and the wanted sections are
rather short...
I prefer to use the screen capture function in my terminal program. I
append marked regions one by one to a file in my PC hard-disk, and then
read in that file to the new message. Check your terminal program for
this useful function.

-- 
[email-masked]
University of Helsinki * Nordica / Institute of literature

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:40:17 -0700 (PDT)

Another option is to select the messages of interest and then do "afn"
(apply-forward-no), then edit you the pieces you don't want.

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Holger Lillqvist)
Date: 18 Oct 1996 06:40:43 GMT

In an earlier article I wrote:

: I prefer to use the screen capture function in my terminal program. I
: append marked regions one by one to a file in my PC hard-disk, and then
: read in that file to the new message. Check your terminal program for
: this useful function.

Oops. I forgot that in pine, this method works only when the sections to
be captured are less than one screenful in extension. This is because in
pine, the text does not continuosly flow from top-of-screen into the
terminal program's screen memory buffer (or whatever this is called).
What if you want to capture more? You can export your files, and scroll
them on screen (cat, in unix). Or switch to elm. 

hl

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:00:02 -0700 (PDT)

You can also use Pine's PIPE "|" command in conjunction with the "free
output" suboption to pass a message to "cat" or whatever.

-teg

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From: yates dean <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:32:28 -0400

This is actually a different cut and paste question. I'd like to send my
resume via Pine e-mail in ASCII. I have the resume on disc, use MS
Works/Windows 3.1, and need to transfer the resume from my disc to Pine
compose message. How do I do this??? Please explain in really simple-to
understand language and assume little basic knowledge on my part. Thanks.

Dean
[email-masked]

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From: Lea <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:28:28 -0600 (MDT)

To Mike (I think):  We tried to duplicate the cut-and-paste
from MS-Word to Pine problem here (in a networked
environment, both machines with Win95, Pine 3.93) and it
didn't happen...
???  Is there maybe something specific in your environment
that is causing the CTRL-R characters to appear?

Lea
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From: Ruth Anne Ladue <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:40:48 -0700

First of all, this isn't really a PINE question. A little peek into the
"Save file" portion of the HELP file on MS Works will probably help. You
also don't say what platform you're running PINE on. The more information
you give about your problem, the easier it is to find a solution.

Open your file in MS Works, and click "File", then click "Save As". In the
"Save As" file dialog box for MS Works, there should be options for file
format. Choose the "Text Only" option, and save your file, changing the
file name so you don't overwrite your original MS Works file.

How you get your new ASCII file into a PINE compose window depends on what
platform PINE runs on. If you're using PC PINE, Control-R (^R) in the
message test portion of the Compose window will prompt you for a file
name, and you just type the file name, press return, and there it is! 
You'll probably have to reformat the file so it looks good; you can do
this before you import the file to PINE. 

If you're using PINE on a remote system that you telnet or dial into,
first you'll have to upload your file to the remote system using kermit,
or sz or FTP.  (There are other newsgroups that can tell you how to
use these utilities to upload your file.) Then you open PINE,
and insert the file into the compose window as above.

--Ruth Anne 

Ruth Anne Ladue			[email-masked]
SRI International

I speak for SRI part of the time; this isn't that part!

> understand language and assume little basic knowledge on my part. Thanks.

--Ruth Anne