[comp.mail.elm] Suggested improvement to elm.

peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (07/22/88)

This may already be in it (we only have 1.5), but: one problem I have
with elm is that once you're in the editor you can't easily change any
of the header information (basically, you have to save the message, quit,
and restart). Also, there's a limit to what you can change from the
beginning (like, you can't explicitly route stuff when you know the
default forwarder is down).

I'd like Elm to do something like what vnews or rn does: write the headers
into the file you edit. That way you can edit them as you like and let
elm parse and use them when you quit.

Even old mailx gives you this much, via the '~' escapes.
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