Hi,
three questions:
1.) about emacs text editing,
2.) about mutt quoting text,
3.) about mutt composing a new message
1.) I'm using vim and don't know too much of emacs. One thing I find
very useful with vim is that if I want to wrap a very long quoted line
with width greater than 80 characters and the line begins with the
quotation character '> ', then I can hit gqap or gqip and I have the
long line turned to a paragraph that has each line beginning with the
quotation character '> ' and has width of 'textwidth' variable which is
usually set to 72 characters.
When I tried out emacs I didn't know how this works here and I was
missing this function. So I turned back to vim again. Do you know if
there is such a function in emacs? Is there any complete documentation
of emacs available on the web?
2.) Editing an email with vim/mutt, I sometimes wish to insert/quote
text from another email that I'm not currently replying to. I remember
that there was such a function when I used pine some years ago. Pine's
builtin editor pico ("pine composer") read the contents from an other
email to the cursor position after hitting a special key combination and
entering the index number of the email in the current folder. Is there
also an easy way to do this with mutt?
3.) Suppose I'm in the index and my position indication arrow is marking
an email from somebody I want to write an email to. I don't want to hit
'r' because I don't want to _reply_ to this email. One solution would
be:
- hit '@'
- mark the displayed author's ( = sender's ) address
- hit 'm' to mail a new message
- paste the sender's address into the "To: " field.
Is there a function in mutt that does exactly this after hitting one
key? Or how to define a macro to do this?
An other, worse solution would be: hitting 'a', taking the sender's
address into my address book, hitting 'm', entering the given nickname.
Later: editing my address book and deleting the entry again. But this
method is too much wasting time and awkward.
Kind regards,
-Jens
