[10479] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.5B: xmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tom palka)
Fri Apr 30 10:35:24 1993
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 10:35:18 -0400
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: fuellen@Athena.MIT.EDU
From: tom palka <tompalka@mit.edu>
System name: air-traffic-controller
Type and version: POWER 7.5B
Display type: graygda
What were you trying to do?
I was trying to use the replyInsertFilter resource of xmh to specify a
filter for inserting messages. According to the man page:
replyInsertFilter
An sh command to be executed when the Insert button
is activated in a composition window. The full path
and filename of the source message is appended to
the command before being passed to sh(1). The
default filter is cat; i.e. it inserts the entire
message into the composition. Interesting filters
are: sed 's/^/> /' or awk -e '{print " " $0}' or
<mh directory>/lib/mhl -form mhl.body.
I used the following resources:
Xmh*replyInsertFilter: awk '{print ">> " $0}'
and
Xmh*replyInsertFilter: sed 's/^/> /'
What's wrong:
Well, neither worked. In fact the manual page is incorrect. The name
for the resource, by looking at /usr/athena/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xmh is:
Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter: cat
What should have happened:
When I hit "insert" in the reply window xmh should have pasted the
message I'm replying to with "> " prepended to each line.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man xmh (the section i included above), Xmh app-defaults.
my ~/.mh_profile is very standard:
Folder-Protect: 700
Msg-Protect: 600
Path: Mail
Signature: tom palka
rmmproc: /bin/rm
