Re: editing auto-viewed attachments

[Matt Price <matt.price@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:33:12AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2004-01-15, Matt Price <matt.price@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.  
> 
> My first thought is to use an fcc-hook for saving copies to a
> special folder.
> 
> > 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
> > default, >).  I've tried setting forward_quote = no, but that seems to
> > have no effect.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Have your macro
> 
>     set indent_string=""
> 
> You'll need to set it back to "> " for normal replies somehow.
> 
> If you don't want to include the message from the student in your
> reply, you can reply from the attachment menu instead of from the
> index menu or from the pager.  You can also
> 
>     set attribution=""
> 
> to remove the attribution line from the reply as well, although it
> may be more work to clear and reset that from mutt than it would be
> to simply remove the line with your editor.
> 
> Just some thoughts.
> 
> HTH,
> Gary
> 

Hey Gary,

Thanks for the help.  I have this, which works:
macro index "\Cx\Cr" "<enter-command>set indent_string=\"\"<enter><reply>"

and this, which doesn't:
macro index "\Cx\Cr" "<enter-command>set 
indent_string=\"\"<enter><reply><enter-command>set indent_string=\"> \"<enter>" 
  

The latter erases the message when I go to reply (instead of the old
message, I get an empty buffer) 
I could define a scond macro to reset the indent_string, but I'd
rather not... Is there a trick to tell mutt that <enter-command> comes
only after reply has finished its work?

thx,
matt