Subject: Compose including other messages?

From: Jeff <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:31:23 -0500 (CDT)

Hello, all.

I'm wondering if there is an easier way to include other e-mail
messages in a composition.  Ie: I'm replying to a certain email, but
would like to quote part or all of a separate e-mail. Currently, I do
this by postponing (^o) the current message, going to the other
e-mail, saving it out to a file, then resuming the compose, and ^r
inserting the file.  If this option exists, could someone point me to
it, and if it doesn't, would it be feeping creaturism (to quote L.
Wall) to include it?

Thanks!

-jeff

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Jeff Schaller			[email-masked]
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From: "Aaron S. Hawley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:46:11 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

the only other way is as follows:

make sure all the messages you want to reply to our quote from are in the
same mail folder.  then hit reply on the message you want to include, and
then hit ^R and hit ^W and insert a message, then say how many messages in
the folder.  as you can see this is just as annoying as your old way.  so
all i can say is, that is a good suggestion for the next version of pine.

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Jeff wrote:
> 
> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:31:23 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Jeff <[email-masked]>
> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Compose including other messages?
> 
> Hello, all.
> 

Aaron S. Hawley
[email-masked]
802.656.7396
http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley
University of Vermont
Home: Vergennes, VT, USA

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From: Jeff <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:08:50 -0500 (CDT)

> all i can say is, that is a good suggestion for the next version of pine.

Ahh, right, right. I'd forgotten that last detail of being able to
include messages from the current folder, but not from different ones. 
So the feature would be: expand the ^R ^W to allow one to pull emails
from different folders. 

Thanks!
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From: Paul Halsema <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:59:40 -0400 (EDT)

> So the feature would be: expand the ^R ^W to allow one to pull emails

Two other options:
  1) If messages are all in the same folder, then select the ones you want
     to include (:), then do Apply and Reply.

  2) For messages in different folders do Aaron's ^R ^W suggestion,
     followed by ^O to postpone, Go to the other folder, resume composing
     the postponed message and then ^R ^W to include messages from that
     folder. It's not quite as awkward as it sounds and a little better
     than saving or exporting each file first/

   ---Paul

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From: Steve Ekwall <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:28:31 -0600 (MDT)

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Hi all, 

    That's an interesting feature, but strange in function to me. Why or
what exactly was that ^W implimented for? - BULK MAILING?? or something??
And
what's with the " enter number of messages " 2?, 200? ---> *.*?
Looks like one would have to have a very clean folder and in order and 
seperated by date/time for inclusion's to make sense too.
    Just curious, as it works!  I thought the first request was valid.
Is a 'folder directory' with Include Which? a way to go on that? Thoughts?

Thanks     
-=se=-
[email-masked]     

p.s. Since ^W is whereis (search for string) in compose would instead of
number to include be better an ascii "keyword" to include?  so, anyfile
containing the word "cats & dogs" are found and included?  just a thought.

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From: "Aaron S. Hawley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:04:06 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

before jeff asked the question about including other messages, i had never
used the feature of including other messages.  and when i first used it i
of course used ^R to include a files, then i thought I would get the
option of going to files (^T) and then be shown my mail folders and have
to select a folder, and then perhaps select a message or multiple
messages.  this is option of browsing your messages or files is used when
you are saving a message to a folder, except of course you don't select
messages.  so i would think pine is capable, just for some reason it
wasn't used there.  and yes, i would also like to know why the hell you
would want to choose a certain of number of messages after pressing ^W
InsertMsg.  cause it's a pain in the you now what to have to delete all
the messages you wouldn't want.

Aaron S. Hawley
[email-masked]
802.656.7396

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Steve Ekwall wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:28:31 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Steve Ekwall <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: Compose including other messages?
>

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From: Jeff Goswick <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:36:04 -0600 (MDT)

The ^R,^W allows you to include 1 message from the current folder, not a
series of mesages. The number that you enter is the Message Number, i.e. the
number in the second column from the left on the message index screen.

So to include 2 different messages in a new email, reply to the first, and
while editing the text, hit ^R, then ^W, then enter the index number (current
folder of course) of the other message you want to include.

^O (postpone), G (goto folder), then C (resume compose) is needed if the
messages you want to include are in different folders

It would be nice if you could browse the index, select multiple messages,
browse folders, etc, but I personally wouldn't use that feature very much.

Regards
Jeff

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> and yes, i would also like to know why the hell you