Re: Joe editor with slrn

Robert Grimm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Organization Disorganized
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Duke Normandin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:17:06 -0700 (MST), Duke Normandin wrote:
>> > set editor_command "jmacs +%d '%s'"
>> >
>> > expecting to be taken to the end of the quoted text when doing a
>> > "followup". I'm doing something wrong because it's not working.

> No! It was not. A solution was offered using a Joe CL argument (+nnn),
> which does work. However I want to know specifically about the "+%d"!
> Can you offer some insight on _that_?

Your expectation is wrong. As stated in the docs, %d represents the
_first_ line of the message body. e.g in my message at the line starting
with "Duke".
If you use +%d as an argument for joe I'm quite confident that joe will
place the cursor as documented.

Rob
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