editing auto-viewed attachments

[Matt Price <matt.price@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey folks,

I use gary's mutt_bgrun to autoview msword docs in the console.
Just recently I've started a parcitce of letting students email me
short papers every week.  Rather than printing them out &c, I would
like to add comments to these texts from within emacs (my mutt editor)
and reply to the message.  (maybe not simultaneously).  

Since a text version of these documents already exists somewhere, it
should be possible to edit that text version directly.  Yes no?

Here's an idea of what should happen:

open message, see there's a paper included, decide to grade it:

start macro: "grade and reply" 

emacs opens as with a regular reply, but the message is included as
text and without no forwarding string.

I enter comments and a letter grade

when finished, I exit the text editor and copies are sent to a special
folder and to the student.  

This should be easy to do with a macro, right?  and in fact the
default reply behaviour already includes the text version of the .doc
-- but with the quote character in front if it (in my case the
default, >).  I've tried setting forward_quote = no, but that seems to
have no effect.  Any suggestions?

thx,

matt