Subject: Including one message in the body of another?

From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:52:44 -0700 (PDT)

Let's say I want to Reply to someone's message, and intersperse bits of another
message with the quoted text of the current one. How do I do that?

	-Kenny

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From: Kiri Wagstaff <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:00:36 -0400 (EDT)

> message with the quoted text of the current one. How do I do that?

I don't know if Pine has a built-in facility for merging messages this
way.  However, you can <E>xport the second message to a text file, then
<R>eply to the first message and <Ctrl-R> (in Pico) to insert the saved
text file into the current response.

	Kiri

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From: Jason Tiller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:00:42 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Hi, Kenny, :)

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Kenneth Crudup wrote:

> Let's say I want to Reply to someone's message, and intersperse bits
> of another message with the quoted text of the current one. How do I
> do that?

'Twould be nice if Pine had some facility like that, but I don't know
of any.  I simply view the "another message" in Emacs and copy it to
the kill ring, yanking it back into the "current message" for the
reply.

I'd be thrilled if there was a more Piney method because I encounter
this fairly frequently...

---Jason
Sonos Handbell Ensemble
http://www.sonos.org/

P.S. - I *sure* wish Pine had some kind of "background create" system
whereby Pine's interface would remain responsive while I edited a
message via an alternate editor.

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:07:58 -0500 (CDT)

> of another message with the quoted text of the current one. How do I

This is kinda clunky: you have to navigate your way to the mailbox that
has the message to be included, and remember its ordinal (for eg, msg 12
of 42).

Then, in your reply text, (^R)ead (^W)InsertMessage and type in the
message number from above (in this example, 12). Pine will add the
reply-leadin, and quote the message you inserted with the
reply-indent-string

Wish item: Pine should let the user navigate to a mailbox, browse the
message index, and pick the message to be inserted.

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From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:32:10 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Gopi Sundaram wrote:

> message number from above (in this example, 12).

Heh. This is a pico-specific method, eh?

	-Kenny, who uses an alt-editor (vi)

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:07:49 +0100 (BST)

> reply-leadin, and quote the message you inserted with the

Another option if all the messages that you want to include in
your reply are in the same mailbox, is to go to the Message Index
of the mailbox and select each message using

 :

Then "Apply Reply" by typing

 A R

And include the original message my answering Yes to the next
question

 Y

Then answer the rest of the questions and edit the headers and
the body as you like.

HTH,
Nancy

PS - you need to enable-aggregate-command-set to be able to do
this.

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From: Jason Tiller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:47:30 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Hi, Nancy, :)

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Nancy McGough wrote:

> Another option if all the messages that you want to include in your
> reply are in the same mailbox, is to go to the Message Index of the
> mailbox and select each message using

> And include the original message my answering Yes to the next

Beautiful!  Thanks!  That helps a lot!  Very smooth.  Still wish I
could do something while composing, but this goes a long way towards
alleviating that need.

---Jason
Sonos Handbell Ensemble
http://www.sonos.org/

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From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:02:37 -0700 (PDT)

> of the mailbox and select each message using

Thanks! I'll try this.

	-Kenny