Re: Two manipulations I do a lot
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:06:30PM -0500, Jean-Rene David wrote:
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> 2. (a little more tricky I think) While replying to a
> message, I want to quote a passage from another message in
> my mailbox. Currently I need to:
>
> - postpone the message I am editing - go find the message
> containing the desired passage - open it with vim (err,
> the external editor) - save the passage I want in a
> temporary file - recall the postponed message - read in
> the temporary file with the desired passage.
>
> I am not so sure what would be the desired behavior in
> this case, but I do wonder how others do it. I do this
> quite often and find it pretty inconvenient.
I normally just open another instance of mutt and go to the
same folder in which I was working, then open the 'other'
message and copy/paste from it.
John