hodges@Breakaway.Stanford.EDU (Jeff Hodges) (03/06/91)
I've been messing around trying to get Xmh's ReplyInsertFilter to work.
When I hit the Insert button, the message being replied to is indeed
inserted into my composition at the insertion point, but without the
embellishments I want awk to add. Here's my ReplyInsertFilter resource...
Xmh*ReplyInsertFilter: awk '{print "> " $0}'
..this awk command works fine when tested manually on a csh command line.
I'm using the xmh from X11R4 distribution. I'm not sure of the patch
level as I didn't build it, it most likely isn't up to the latest level.
I'm running on a 3100 with...
ULTRIX V4.0 (Rev. 179) System #5: Mon Aug 27 11:08:21 PDT 1990
UWS V4.0 (Rev. 164)
And my repl version is...
version: MH 6.5 #74[UCI] (sairam) of Thu Mar 15 04:49:36 EST 1990
options: [BANG] [ATZ] [ISI] [MHRC] [WHATNOW] [BSD42] [BERK] [TTYD]
[DUMB] [MHE] [NETWORK] [BIND] [RPATHS] [SBACKUP='"#"']
[SENDMTS] [SMTP]
If you can help, great. Please respond to me directly as I do not keep
up with these newsgroups regularly.
thanks,
Jeffnelson@wrl.epi.com (Ken Nelson) (03/07/91)
Here is what works for us:
In .Xdefaults
Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter: insert_filt
insert_filt is this:
/usr/local/lib/mh/mhl -form mhl.body $1 | awk -e '{print"> " $0}'
I suppose you could put the contents of the insert_filt script into
the .Xdefaults resource as well.
Hope this helps.
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|--------------------------------------------------------------------hodges@Breakaway.Stanford.EDU (Jeff Hodges) (03/08/91)
The issue is apparently... There seems to be a bug in xmh such that the resource Xmh*ReplyInsertFilter is ignored, but Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter is recognized. ..according to jqj@duff.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson) I tried it, and it worked. thanks also to nelson@wrl.epi.com (Ken Nelson). Jeff
gdmr@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (George Ross) (03/08/91)
In article <1991Mar7.165615.27245@leland.Stanford.EDU>, hodges@Breakaway.Stanford.EDU (Jeff Hodges) writes: > There seems to be a bug in xmh such that the resource > Xmh*ReplyInsertFilter > is ignored, but Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter is recognized. The reason is that the app-defaults file has "Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter: cat" in it. Your definition with '*' instead of '.' is less specific, so it's ignored in favour of the app-defaults one. -- George D M Ross, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh 031-650 5147 or 031-667 1081 gdmr@uk.ac.ed.cs (or cs.ed.ac.uk if you prefer)