Sedit Help

# Sedit

Sedit is a simple editor built into exmh. The editor works on draft messages that are kept in your MH draft folder. When you do Compose, Reply, or Forward, a new draft is created for you.

You can customize the key bindings for this editor.

Here is what the buttons do:

Abort - remove the draft message from the drafts folder. The editor window is removed.

Save&Quit - saves the message in the draft folder but does not send it.

Help - displays this window.

Quote... - Bring up a menu with the following options (replies only):

Quote - Insert a copy of the current message. See the Quote preferences for information about customizing the copy of the message.

Quote MIME - Attach a copy of the current message as a part into a multipart MIME message.

Send - saves and posts the message. By default it is removed from the draft folder when you do this, unless you select Keep on Send.

Sign - append your .signature file to the message. If you have autoSign set, or multiple files match .signature* then this button is replaced with the following menu.

Sign... - Select the signature file for the message. It is added when you select it, or when you Send the message if you have the autoSign Preferences item enabled. In this case, if you select the intelligent option, one of the signature files specified under the Intelligent Signatures Preferences option is used, depending upon the destination of the message.

Text... - apply text/enriched formatting to the current selection.

Crypt... - Options for encrypting and/or signing your message. Use format to specify email encoding (plain, application/pgp or MIME multipart). The version submenu controls the application used. The sign submenu selects the signing method or if we should sign AND encrypt. The encrypt checkbox indicates if the message is to be encrypted for the recipients (where an Fcc: header automatically makes the author a recipient). If the author has more than one private key the "Choose Key" option allows for the key selection. Finally, for those that cache their passphrases the "Clear Passphrase(s)" allows for clearing the cache.

More... - Bring up a menu with the following options:

Keep on Send - if this button is highlighted, then Send will not remove the editor window and the draft will remain in the drafts folder after you send it.

Format mail - this breaks long lines (> 79 characters) at word boundaries.

Attempt mhn - run the message body through mhn before sending. If you know the # directives of mhn, you can use this quick hack to compose MIME messages.

Quoted Printable Text - make the content transfer encoding of regular text messages quoted printable to protect 8-bit characters.

Ask for Receipt - Add a Disposition-notification-to header to the mail. This will request a receipt to the address in the header field.

Attachment... - Bring up a sub-menu with the following options:

Attach File... - Attach a file as a part into a multipart MIME message.

Attach Message... - Attach a message as a part into a multipart MIME message.

Attach Reference... - Attach a message/external-body part as a reference to a FTP file or a local file.

Insert File... - Insert a file directly into the message.

Whom - displays the list of recipients for the message.

Spell... - run your spell program over the message body. Select this with the spell preferences for the Simple Editor.

Find SEL - search the message body for the selected string.

Save Buffer - write out the editor buffer to disk. This is only for paranoid folks. The Save&Quit button or Keep on Send options actually result in the draft remaining. This Save button just writes the buffer to disk but does not change the default behavior of renaming drafts after you send them.

Run mhn now Pre-process the message with the mhn program and put the results into the editor buffer.

Mime Preview - Display the message as it will be seen by an exmh user.

Alternate Editor - switch to using your alternate editor.

Filter - The Unix filter mechanism provides an entry widget where you can specify an arbitrary Unix command line. Once specified, selecting a region of text and hitting "Filter" has the effect of sending the selected text through the filter, and replacing it with whatever the filter produced. An "Undo" mechanism is provided in the event that the filter does not have the desired effect. Moreover, each unique filter you execute is stored in a history mechanism, accessible via the "History" menu adjacent to the text entry field.

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