Fairlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is this an outdated part of the manual, or is there something I'm
> missing here? When I go to reply, what is the "send-menu" ??? The
> part with all the headers and attachments and such? I only get that
> after editing my message, not before.
I guess "send-menu" isn't the correct term. It's the name for the
process whereby Mutt prompts you, when sending mail, for the To: and
Subject: headers (and the Cc: and Bcc: headers if you've set the
ask[b]cc variables). Setting autoedit will skip this process.
I think you're right, though, that Mutt will only skip it if you also
set edit_headers. I think the reasoning was that edit_headers was
invented first, but people got sick of being prompted for that
information before going into the editor, where they could type the
information instead, so auto_edit was invented.
Skipping those initial prompts isn't all that great, though, as I soon
discovered, because it means that send-hooks can't run on the message
before you compose it. That means you can't customize signatures,
attributions, or other things, before the message is created.
By the way, the menu that comes up after your first trip to the editor
is called the "compose" menu.
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