abbo@tank.uchicago.edu (Laurie Abbott) (03/10/90)
Is there any way to call comp instead of rn's regular mailposter when you reply to or post a message? I use rn (it's about all that's available on the elxsi) and sometimes read news in emacs. Setting environment variables for MAILPOSTER, etc., doesn't override rn's natural beastiness. Any experience with this? Laurie Abbott -- abbo@tank.uchicago.edu abbabbo@uchimvs1.bitnet
jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) (03/10/90)
> Is there any way to call comp instead of rn's regular mailposter > when you reply to or post a message? I use rn (it's about all that's > available on the elxsi) and sometimes read news in emacs. Setting > environment variables for MAILPOSTER, etc., doesn't override rn's > natural beastiness. Any experience with this? I use it for replies. I set this up few years ago, in a hurry, and haven't touched it since. It seems to work fine... I've forgotten all the stuff I learned about 'rn' to make it work, though. :-) But maybe it'll give you a start. I put this in my .profile: RNINIT=$HOME/.rnswitches export RNINIT Here's my $HOME/.rnswitches file. You want MAILHEADER and MAILPOSTER, and the "-F", I think. I set the environment variables here in .rnswitches, instead of my .profile, because I don't want them cluttering up my environment when I'm not reading news: -d~/.news -EMAILHEADER="To: %f Subject: Re: %S Newsgroups: %n Fcc: inbox\\n\\n" -EMAILPOSTER="rn-ans -form %h" -F"> " -h +hfrom +hdate -2400-i=4 +4800-i=15 -m=u -N -S -t I made a symbolic link in my bin directory to "comp": $ ls -l rn-ans lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdpeek 18 Nov 1 1988 rn-ans -> /usr/local/mh/comp I put this line in my .mh_profile: rn-ans: -editor rn-ans.fixmsg And my brainless 'rn-ans.fixmsg' editor is after the line below. It basically just tacks a signature onto the draft file that 'rn' makes, then puts me into 'vi' five lines above the end of the message. When the script ends, I'm at a What now? prompt; I just "push" the reply. You could make a script like this do anything you want... --Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, JDPEEK@SUNRISE.BITNET +1 315 443-3995 ------- CUT HERE FOR BRAINLESS EDITOR ------------------------------------- # This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line, # then unpack it by saving it in a file and typing "sh file". # # Wrapped by rodan.acs.syr.edu!jdpeek on Sat Mar 10 04:04:07 EST 1990 # Contents: rn-ans.fixmsg echo extracting - rn-ans.fixmsg sed 's/^X//' > "rn-ans.fixmsg" <<'X//E*O*F rn-ans.fixmsg//' X#! /bin/sh X### rn-ans.fixmsg - editor for "r" and "R" commands in "rn" X### Usage in .mh_profile: rn-ans: -editor rn-ans.fixmsg X X# IF CAN FIND MAIL SIGNATURE, ADD IT TO END OF DRAFT: Xif [ -w "$1" ] Xthen X for f in $HOME/.Mail/mailend $HOME/.signature X do X if [ -r $f ] X then X cat $f >> "$1" X break X fi X done Xelse X echo "`basename $0`: can't write to draft '$1'. Quitting." 1>&2 X exit 1 Xfi X X# EDIT DRAFT WITH vi (IT BETTER NOT RETURN NON-ZERO OR DRAFT GETS ZAPPED?): Xexec vi +'$-5' $1 X//E*O*F rn-ans.fixmsg// chmod u=rw,g=,o= rn-ans.fixmsg echo Inspecting for damage in transit... temp=/tmp/shar$$; dtemp=/tmp/.shar$$ trap "rm -f $temp $dtemp; exit" 0 1 2 3 15 cat > $temp <<\!!! 22 89 492 /tmp/rn-ans.fixmsg !!! wc rn-ans.fixmsg | sed 's/^X//' | diff -b $temp - >$dtemp if [ -s $dtemp ] then echo "Ouch [diff of wc output]:" ; cat $dtemp else echo "No problems found." fi exit 0