ljdickey@watmath.UUCP (09/06/83)
It seems to me that you have made a good case for "~abort". -- Lee Dickey (ljdickey@watmath.UUCP) ...!allegra!watmath!ljdickey ...!ucbvax/decvax!watmath!ljdickey University of Waterloo
uucp@watmath.UUCP (09/08/83)
oon as you quit the editor, you've posted. What there is a good case for is a step in between, like in mail when you invoke the editor with ~e and then quit, and get (continue).
govern@houxf.UUCP (09/09/83)
I've found that the easiest way to stop a posting, as long as I'm still in the editor, is to delete all the lines, then write and quit. (:1,$d :wq). inews returns with a message about "You don't really want to post THAT?", and doesn't post it.
mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason) (09/09/83)
The easiest way to stop a followup is to say:
1,$d
a
?
.
w
q
which removes the header so the news program has nowhere to post it.
Alternatively use vnews where you just quit without writing the file.
-- Gandalf's flunky Hobbit -- Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG,
{cornell,watmath,ihnp4,floyd,allegra,utzoo,uw-beaver}!utcsrgv!mason
or {decvax,linus,lsuc,research}!utzoo!utcsrgv!mason (UUCP)mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason) (09/10/83)
The easiest way to stop a followup is to say:
1,$d
a
?
.
w
q
which removes the header so the news program has nowhere to post it.
Alternatively use vnews where you just quit without writing the file.
-- Gandalf's flunky Hobbit -- Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG,
{cornell,watmath,ihnp4,floyd,allegra,utzoo,uw-beaver}!utcsrgv!mason
or {decvax,linus,lsuc,research}!utzoo!utcsrgv!mason (UUCP)debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) (09/17/83)
I noticed that many articles on this mentioned ways to stop a followup from within "ed". I thought I might mention that by setting the environmental variable EDITOR, one can use the editor of one's choice for inews or postnews: e.g. I have a line in my login file that says setenv EDITOR emacs which does the trick. Saumya Debray SUNY at Stony Brook