Mike Schiraldi wrote:

> > Perhaps something as simple as renaming the edit-message function to
> > tweak-message, telling it to use $tweak_prog which defaults to $editor
> > if $t_p is undefined, and explaining in the manual why tweak-message is
> > bound to 'e' would do it.  
>
> How about just adding a command called <edit-with>? It prompts "Edit with
> command: " and then calls the <edit>, but with your command as the editor.
>
> Then you could say:
>
> macro index ^ "<edit-with>filter.pl\n"
>
> and have your one-key filter.

Exactly!  I was calling it <filter-message> but this is exactly how it
should work!

This way you could write much simpler (like the above) macros instead
of setting/resetting $editor.

Steve

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