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- TEXT MODE
-
- You are using TEXT MODE when you are typing in your message. The usual
- prompt for Text Mode is:
-
- Message (End with CTRL/D or ESC
- Use CTRL/B to insert a file, CTRL/E to enter editor, CTRL/F to run text
- through a filter, CTRL/K to redisplay message, CTRL/L to clear screen and
- redisplay, CTRL/N to abort, CTRL/P to run a program and insert output.):
-
- You see this prompt if you reach Text Mode by using the SEND, REPLY or
- FORWARD commands from the MM> or Read> prompts.
-
- Exit from Text Mode by using the ESCAPE key or control-d. You will then be
- at the Send> prompt (Send Mode). From the Send> prompt, you can go back
- to Text Mode, if you like, by using the TEXT command.
-
- Text mode has very limited editing features. It does automatic line breaks
- (you don't need to press RETURN at the end of each line), and the DELETE
- key backs up the cursor for error correction, but wipes out text as it
- moves back. You can give some commands by using control keys:
-
- In this list ^B for example means control-b.
-
- ^B insert a file where the cursor is.
- ^C abort and leave MM. --Not recommended--
- ^D stop inputting text (same as pressing the ESCAPE key). (note *)
- ^E use an editor. Defined by SET EDITOR command; default is emacs.
- Any text already typed is brought into the editor buffer.
- ^F run text through a filter. Takes the text you typed so far as
- input to a program, and replaces it with the result.
- ^K redisplay message.
- ^L clear screen, and redisplay message from the top of the screen.
- ^N abort, throw away the whole message.
- ^P run a program and insert its output where the cursor is.
- ^R redisplay the current line.
- ^S stop output to screen; ^Q restore output [shell commands].
- ^U erase the last line.
- ^V insert next character as typed (like ^L for page break).
- ^W erase the last word.
- ^Z suspend MM; at the shell, type "mm" to resume.
- ESCAPE stop inputting text. (note *)
-
- note * : The variables CONTROL-D-AUTOMATIC-SEND and ESCAPE-AUTOMATIC-SEND,
- if set to YES, change ^D and ESCAPE respectively to mean both stop
- inputting text and send. At the normal NO settings, ^D and ESCAPE only
- mean stop inputting text, and you are left at the Send> prompt.
-
- To type longer messages, a full editor is better than Text Mode. To use
- emacs, type control-e. You can start typing in Text Mode and then
- change to emacs; the message you typed so far will be placed into the
- emacs buffer.
-
- From the Send> prompt, use EDIT instead of TEXT to enter emacs.
-
- If you want to use emacs for all messages, change the variable USE-
- EDITOR-ALWAYS. The variables EDITOR and GNUEMACS-MMAIL (and MMAIL-PATH)
- set up emacs as the editor and customize it for MM. For help with
- the variables type "help set" and the variable name.
-
- For more help, type "help" and one of these topics:
- send reply forward edit send-mode text send-mode edit
- set control-d-automatic-send set escape-automatic-send
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