to which Lulu replied:
> 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.
The problem is not a problem: When you reply the address in the
From: line becomes the address in the To: line, which Yarn Does include
in your editor. So the name of the recipiant of your mail is available.
If you are writing plain mail (not a forward or reply), you can have
a separate macro that uses your initials only.
If you want to use the initials of whoever the author of some quited
passage is, and we can assume you know what those initials are: The
vi family of editors can handle that just fine: A macro can prompt
you for initials to use as the global quote string, or you can set
an editor variable (or abbreviation) that is read by the macro when
it executes.