Re: Joe editor with slrn

Duke Normandin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <alpine.OSX.2.01.1002161243130.18999@q75-154-89-130.noufvn.gryhf.arg>
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Robert Grimm wrote:

> 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.


The correct answer (with Joe) appears to be:

+%d  => top of quoted message
+%d1 => bottom of quoted message
-- 
duke
when all else fails, keep you mouth shut

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