On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:18:27PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: > Hi, > > * Vladimír Marek [07-09-02 11:34:50 +0200] wrote: > > >JUst out of curiosity, how do you compose message out of different mails > >? For example you reply to someone, but need to include part of another > >mail you got the day before. > > I don't think that was meant. What was meant (I think) was this: when > writing some reply to a message in a thread, you want to re-read a part > of it and possibly refer to another message ala "foo wrote this" or "bar > wrote that". If you're refering to what *I* meant in the message Vladimir is replying to, that's not quite it either, though close enough I guess. What I actually meant was in the middle of composing a reply, you want to refer to a third, completely different message, possibly even from a different thread or mail folder, but relevant to what you're discussing. I find this happening rather a lot. I don't necessarily want to include it in the message; I just want to remind myself what was said. As mentioned, tag-reply solves the above problem, which I also encounter quite a lot. :) > I usually fire up another mutt instance in another terminal to re-read > things while writing replies. I usually postpone my message and go have a look, though sometimes do what you described too, depending on how much material I'm reviewing. But neither is quite as convenient as having the composition in a separate pane, and there are other usage scenarios as well (for example I just want to see when new mail is delivered while I'm composing a long message) and it's not practical for me to always be running two copies of Mutt. Usually, there's already way too much on my screen... -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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