Re: Two manipulations I do a lot
On 2005-12-05, Jean-Rene David <jrdavid@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are few operations which I would love to be
> able to do more smoothly using mutt. I wonder how
> people are doing them, because I find the way I do
> them rather clunky.
> 2. (a little more tricky I think) While replying
> to a message, I want to quote a passage from
> another message in my mailbox. Currently I need
> to:
>
> - postpone the message I am editing
> - go find the message containing the
> desired passage
> - open it with vim (err, the external editor)
> - save the passage I want in a temporary file
> - recall the postponed message
> - read in the temporary file with the desired
> passage.
>
> I am not so sure what would be the desired
> behavior in this case, but I do wonder how
> others do it. I do this quite often and find
> it pretty inconvenient.
In addition to the other ideas presented here, sometimes I will
execute the following within vim:
:split $MAIL
(or whatever mailbox I'm replying from), search for the message of
interest, and just yank and put the desired passage.
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Wireless Division
http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ | Spokane, Washington, USA