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Re: tagline/signature question for Alain



Hello Allister,

 On Friday, November 7, 2003 at 12:52:16 PM -0500, Allister MacLeod wrote:

> how do you choose what tagline to put in the signature

    Excellent patch-1.5.4.cd.signatures_menu.2.1 from Cédric Duval. You
can browse all sigs, select one manually, search by keyword, or type 'r'
to take one at random.


> sometimes they are apropos to the message at hand, and sometimes not.

    Taratata. Abolutely *always* apropos. Just sometimes to another
message in another thread. ;-)


> Do you have some sort of magic way to choose the signature, or some
> macros within your text editor, or what?

    For a relatively small number of sigs (a dozen), there is also the
dumb method: Build a file containing all sigs, put it in $signature, and
while writting the mail trim out everything not applicable. I do just
that for Mutt builds without cd.signatures_menu.2.1


> I sort of miss the old QWK-mail BBS days where I had a random tagline
> file full of junk from song lyrics to pithy one-liners about computers
> and physics and stuff.

    There should be no problem reusing such a tagline file. Just perhaps
preprocess it to change whatever separator between sigs in file (perhaps
single % as in fortune) to sigdashes.


Bye!    Alain.
-- 
You know what I would like to do? COMPLY. I would LOVE to COMPLY. But, you know
what, Pat? I don't know where the h_ll that frickin 2-dash stupid stinkin line
is coming from, okay? Comply...
        Greg K. in « Scarface III -- The Return Of The Evil Sigdashes »