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Re: Selecting entire message text at once?



* orthodox@xxxxxxxxxx <orthodox@xxxxxxxxxx> [2004-07-18 17:05 -0400]:
> 
> This may seem like a ridiculously simple question, but I have searched
> mutt's F1 help and can't find an answer.
> 
> 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
> within Eterm--but as I understand it, when I'm reading a message, I'm doing
> so in mutt's own pager, and it's from this view that I need to select a
> block of text.  I can select all the text that's on the page, but I can't
> find an easy way to select all the text in a long message--including text
> that's not visible, below the displayed page--so I can copy to another
> message from the clipboard.  There must be an easy way to do this, but I
> can't find it.

Not possible in that way, but what you could do is to copy the message (or
attachment) to a temp file and then read it into joe (^K R).

> 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.

A number of windows-based mail clients and mailing lists assume that the
windows-1252 charset is the same as iso-8859-1 (the only difference I'm
aware of is that w1252 has some extra charaters, like the so-called "smart
quotes") or even us-ascii. I've just recently started doing something about
these messages. For one list, I use a charset-hook in a message-hook. I.e.,

 message-hook   .               'unhook charset-hook'
 message-hook   '~f spacedaily' 'charset-hook us-ascii windows-1252'

There's another list with this problem which doesn't have a Content-Type:
header. For that one I add it in procmail. I.e.,

 :0 f
 * ^Sender:.*spaceupdate@SPACE\.COM
 | formail -a 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252'

 :0 A:
 Space
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