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Re: Better piped text support



Hi Jay,

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 00:39:08 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> > recently I wrote I would like mutt to work better with piped text.
> > The command $mutt -s <subject> -i - add@ress < textfile.txt
> > should make mutt open the editor with the piped text in the buffer or
> > open the compose menu with the content of textfile.txt as first
> > attachment. If there is a patch for that, please let me know.

> You mean like...
> mutt -s hello -i file.txt
> 
> This ask you for the To address and then opens the message containing
> the file.txt for editing.

yes, I know, but this is not with piped text.

Most flexible would be to have the -i option opening the editor with the
text and an -I option to open the compose menu with the text as the
first attachment.

Best regards

Jens