Re: Setting the From: and Reply-to: Headers in Jed

[Duke <dukeofperl@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, John E. Davis wrote:

> Duke <dukeofperl@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This message is being written from the Pine MUA using Jed in
> > mail_mode. However I would like to sometimes email stuff while in a
> > Jed session. Is there a way to set the subject headers in the various
> > jed comfig files?
>
> If you use jed's mailedit_mode, then you can customize the headers in
> a mailedit_mode_hook.  You can enable mailedit_mode via the mail_hook
> e.g.,
>
> define mail_hook()
> {
>    mailedit_mode ();
>    local_setkey ("mail_send", "^C^C");
>    local_setkey ("mail_kill_buffer", "^Xk");
> }
>
> See mailedit.sl for details.  Also mailutils.sl might be useful for
> manipulating headers.
>
> Good luck,
> --John

Luck _is_ what I'll be needing at the rate I'm going. I see where
mailedit.sl makes it possible to change the display colors of most of
the headers for display, as well as setting a few headers to a default
value, like Reply-To:. Thanks for that. I don't see that I can change
the From: header though, like I can with emacs. How can mailutils.sl
help in this regard?

Here's what I've added to my .jedrc file:

define mail_hook()                                    $
{
   mailedit_mode ();                                    $
   local_setkey ("mail_send", "^C^C"); $
   local_setkey ("mail_kill_buffer", "^Xk");       $
}


define mailedit_mode_hook ()
{
   variable MailEdit_Reply_to = "dukeofperl@xxxxxxx";
}

I must say that all these

mail_hook
mailedit_mode_hook
mark_paragraph_hook
etc, etc

seems a bit convoluted to me.

Can this not be simplified, at least a bit, in future incarnations?
-- 
Duke Normandin
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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