Subject: Editing reply

From: Liz Davis <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:59:05 -0600

I'd like to learn how to edit enclosed messages when I reply to my
mail. I get to the stage where I'm ready to type my reply, with the
insertion point between the header and the enclosed message, which appears
with a column of  > signs in the left margin. Ideally (and I've seen this
done by plenty of folks out there) I would enclose selected lines and
insert my comments between those lines.
			Learningbythedayandlovingitalltheway->Steve

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 01:22:27 +0100 (CET)

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  >insert my comments between those lines.

Well, there are two basic options:

	1: Stick with pine's built-in editor pico. Then you need ^K (strg+k)
	to cut the lines you don't want, and ^J to justify the paragraphs
	that have become to long to fit in one line.
	
	2: For advanced editing, you need to specify an external editor in
	pine's S(etup), C(onfig) screen. Talk to your sysadmin which ones
	you have. Personally, I favour joe, because it's small and simple,
	but there is also vim (vi improved [contradiction in terms]).
	Finally, there's emacs, the editor of Gods. As a matter of fact, it
	comes with its own mailer and it is loud as hell, but it does have
	supercite (if you've seen stuff like ""R.S.S" = Robin S. Socha
	wrote", that was probably done with emacs.

Now, since you don't seem to know too much about email, yet, why don't you
go ahead and grab some email-faq off the internet. Check

	www.metacrawler.com

for "netiquette" "email AND faq" etc.

AND, there's these two links to some really good sites of information:
        
        http://www.ualberta.ca/~maldridg/tutor/Tutorials.html
	http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~maldridg/Wiz/Wizard

Cheers,
Robin

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Robin S. Socha,
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn

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