Re: Selecting entire message text at once?
* On 2004.07.18, in <20040718210519.GA14454@localhost>,
* "orthodox@xxxxxxxxxx" <orthodox@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I want to be able to select the entire text of a message in mutt, even
> though it's long and scrolls off the page. For my editor I'm using joe from
Mutt won't help you here; it has no understanding of your window
environment's clipboard facility. Your trouble is that your window
environment will generally let you select/copy only what's visible in a
window.
There are ways, though. Since you're using Eterm, you're probably using
X11. There's an old (old, old) Athena program called xcb that might
help. Besides being a windowed program providing a visual clipboard
function, it also lets you pipe stdin into an X clipboard or selection
buffer, or to copy a buffer to stdout. If that's not an option for some
reason, or you can no longer find it, I have a small (and incomplete)
program that does the same which I wrote before I knew about xcb.
For MacOS X, there's a program called 'clipboard' that's similar in
function.
You can pipe a message into xcb using the '|' keystroke, or pipe parts of
the message with some more complex command, then mouse-paste immediately.
> Also, if anybody has any ideas why some punctuation marks--apostrophes,
> quotation marks, etc.--are showing up as control sequences beginning with a
> forward slash--I would appreciate it.
This is most likely a Windows character encoding without a Windows
charset indicated in the MIME headers. I believe you need a special
display_filter to convert these characters to something recognizable in
your environment. It might be possible to see them by editing the
message's charset in some way, though.
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