janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) (02/13/90)
Excerpts from andrew: 12-Feb-90 Re: Trouble with 'set hold' Bill Janssen@parc.xerox. (360+0) > I actually like this feature, as it tends to keep people from > accidentally eating their spool file, but the error message is terribly > cryptic. > Bill I notice that the line beginning "Excerpts from andrew:" is no longer boldened and italicized, as it was in Messages 6.??. Is that a good change? Bill
nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (02/13/90)
Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 12-Feb-90 change in Messages `excerpt.. Bill Janssen@parc.xerox. (399+0) > I notice that the line beginning "Excerpts from andrew:" is no longer > boldened and italicized, as it was in Messages 6.??. Is that a good > change? It is still bold for me (see above), though yours wasn't. I know Bob made some changes in how excerpting is done, and I suspect this problem might be due to your somehow using an old template file instead of the latest one. (Bob, does that sound plausible?)
tom@sparc01.icase (Tom Crockett) (02/13/90)
Excerpts from info-andrew: 12-Feb-90 change in Messages `excerpt.. Bill Janssen@parc.xerox. (399+0) > I notice that the line beginning "Excerpts from andrew:" is no longer > boldened and italicized, as it was in Messages 6.??. Is that a good > change? Yes, I noticed the same thing -- it's bold italics when I compose the message, but it's plain text when the message gets delivered, although the body of the excerpt is still italicized. I liked the old way better. I've also noticed that ^X^S in sendmessage doesn't Send/Post the message anymore. I have to use the menu entry instead. I suppose I can fix that if I read enough documentation? -Tom
nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (02/13/90)
Tom's excerpt had the appropriate bold font when it came through to me! I still suspect the problem is in someone somewhere sometimes using an old version of the Messages template. I have no idea why the sending keystroke should have changed. However, the following line in an init file should fix things: addkey sendmessage-send-message ^X^S Which init file? Depends on how you set things up! I personally have a .messagesinit and a .sendmessageinit, each of which includes a common file .amsinit with a line: include /u/nsb/.amsinit and I put the addkey line in there; this makes it take effect for both messages-sending window and sendmessage. -- Nathaniel
rr2b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Robert Andrew Ryan) (02/14/90)
I believe the send/post message binding was changed to ^Xs because many people here were hitting ^X^S accidentally. -Rob Ryan rr2b@andrew.cmu.edu ATK hacker with no affiliation