Re: Points about yarn

From: Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters (quilty@ibm.net)
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 18:16:01 -0500

Howard Schwartz <theo@ncal.verio.com> wrote:
|Probably the easiest way to do this would be to tell yarn to use an editor
|for your reply messages that has a sufficiently rich macro language to do
|what you want, using an editor macro. For example, most of the
|enhanced versions of vi (e.g., elvis, vim) can be configured to grab
|the text after the From: line and use it to construct a prefix.

The problem with this is that Yarn hides the From: editor from the
editor (and attaches it only during post-processing. I never liked this
one element of Yarn's behavior.

Of course, one thing you *could* do within an editor is to have a macro
to stick in initials in the place of the quote string. For example, you
might use a regex along the lines of:

s/^|/<<initials>>|/

where, in my hypothetical editor, the user could plug in a value for the
variable '<<initials>>'. The user would need to type the initials
herself, but the search-and-replace would at least be eased.

Yours, Lulu...

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