stripes@wam.UMD.EDU (06/27/89)
Hi, I'm haveing problems createing a filter file that does exactly what I
want. I've gotten fairly close, but not quite.
I want to include the text of an old message in with my new message, and I want
a single ">" charactor in front of each line (just like the F command in rn).
The closest I have gotten is this filter:
:
body:component=">",compwidth=1,offset=0,length=80,overflowtext="}"
Which is *very* close to what I want, the first line is great, I get
">what they said", but for every other line I get " >what they said",
(there is a space before the arrow for every line but the first)
I have changed all the variables I could think of that would effect it,
but no dice. I also have written a shell script that will give the proper
style, but I don't know any "clean" way to get mh to use it. So I'm looking
for either a way to get the filter to properly insert the arrows, or to
get repl to include text after processing it with a shell script.
(I use raw mh, as well as dxmail when I'm an an X display, so an alias for
repl isn't exactly what I want...)
Someone else has probbly aready done this before, so if you know how please let
me know. I will summrise anything sent to me if it is any diffrent from what
gets posted. Thanks world...
--
stripes@wam.umd.edu "Security for Unix is like
Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Mutitasking for MS-DOS"
"The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood
Be pleasant no matter how much it hurts.
-- Kirk, "Elaan of Troyius," stardate 4372.5.stripes@wam.UMD.EDU (06/28/89)
Well, I got two replys to my message, and since at least one fixes the problem I'm not in need of more :-) Here is a summary... (Oh, and if somehow you missed the original question it was "I can almost get rn style quote attributation, but not quite; how do I fix what I have?") The first was from Tim Theisen <tim@cs.wisc.edu> >I too had a similar problem with repl. I found a bug in mh. This has >been reported to the proper people. Here is my replfilter: > >body:component="> ",width=10000 > >Hope this helps, ...Tim > >Tim Theisen Department of Computer Sciences >tim@cs.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin-Madison >uwvax!tim 1210 West Dayton Street >(608)262-0438 Madison, WI 53706 He also included a patch to the mh bug he mentoned. I'm assumeing that he posted it to the net, but I'll hold on to it for a few days and send them to the net if that's a bogus assumption... (Is it poor net style to re-post anothers patches?) The other reply was from gregg.g.wonderly@att.com, he said >Use compwidth=0. I don't know why, but it works. > >----- >gregg.g.wonderly@att.com (AT&T bell laboratories) So now my filter looks like this: : body:component=">",compwidth=0,offset=0,length=80,overflowtext="}" -- stripes@wam.umd.edu "Security for Unix is like Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Mutitasking for MS-DOS" "The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood "You arn't at collage to make their life easy" - Mark L. Osborne