Append Text with prompter.nopre
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MH message sending programs use prompter for filling in the header
and collecting text for the body of the draft (unless you specify another
editor).
It's hard to change the way that prompter works, though, unless you
make versions of it.
For example, there's no way to tell a command like
forw which prompter switches you want to use.
If you want forw to edit your draft with prompter
-noprepend, commands like this do not work:
% forw -noprepend
forw: -noprepend unknown
% forw -editor "prompter -noprepend"
unable to exec prompter -noprepend: Permission denied
Just as bad, if you put the following entry in your MH profile, it
will always be used for comp, repl, and dist, as
well as forw:
prompter: -noprepend
Here's a version of prompter named prompter.nopre.
It's nothing more than prompter -noprepend.
But you can use this as an editor for some MH commands without affecting
others.
For example, after you set up prompter.nopre, the following
entry in your MH profile will let you type a note after the
message you're forwarding (instead of the default, before):
forw: -editor prompter.nopre
To set it up:
-
Make a new version of prompter named prompter.nopre
(see the Section Making a New Command Version).
-
Put the following entry in your MH profile.
(I also add -rapid to the end of this entry.
That tells prompter to let you add text immediately,
without showing the rest of the draft.
It saves time, especially on slow dialup lines, but it may confuse people
who are used to seeing the whole draft shown before the
What now? prompt.
The -rapid switch is documented in your online
prompter(1)
manual page.)
prompter.nopre: -noprepend
-
Decide which MH mail-sending commands should use prompter.nopre as
an editor.
(For instance, you probably want replx and follx to use it;
you may not want forw to use it.)
Fix the MH profile entries for those commands to include
-editor prompter.nopre.
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