HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
I have two questions regarding vm:

Can I have vm save a copy of every message I send, or equivalently, put me
on the 'CC:' line automatically?

This is more of a request rather than a question, but it would be nice if
there was a 'vm-resend-rejected-message' function which could be used when
mail bounces because of bad mailing address.  This function would extract
the original body, subject and address into a '*VM-mail*' buffer so one
could quickly edit and resend it.

Finally, it would be nice to have some sort of mail-address completion.
Alias in one's .mailrc help a little, but there are a lot of people's
names which I mispell (hence the above request) and I doen't always remember
the mail alias I've set aside for them.  I haven't thought this feature out
completely, so it might be a little half-baked.

Thanks for the help!
From: jgd@acl.lanl.gov (Jerry G. DeLapp)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
Subject: Re: sort by date sent (several hacks sought)
Date: 10 Apr 92 02:12:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: kodiak.JGD.92Apr9191219
Reply-To: jgd@acl.lanl.gov
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Advanced Computing Lab, LANL, NM

Yes, I'm following up to my own posting. I obtained some information today
that causes me to revise the request for hacks that I made...

>>>>> On Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:17:18 GMT, jgd@acl.lanl.gov (Jerry G. DeLapp) said:


Jerry> In vm-5.32...

Some stuff deleted
Jerry> 2)
Jerry> Every once in a while some stupid mailer gives 4 digit year values (e.g.
Jerry> 1992 instead of 92). I know that isn't RFC822, but it'd sure be nice to have a
Jerry> hack that understood 4 digit years and caused them to sort "correctly" with
Jerry> respect to the 2 digit variety.

The following is an excerpt of a mail I received today...

per the RFC1123 update to RFC822:

      5.2.14  RFC-822 Date and Time Specification: RFC-822 Section 5

         The syntax for the date is hereby changed to:

            date = 1*2DIGIT month 2*4DIGIT

         All mail software SHOULD use 4-digit years in dates, to ease
         the transition to the next century.

end of excerpt

I take back the "stupid" remark. I guess anything that gives pure RFC822 dates
now qualifies as stupid ;-).

Given the above new information, I guess I'd modify this request to be

"Could the final release of vm-5.32 (or at least the next release) sorting by
date sent please handle both RFC832 and RFC1123 style dates and not trigger
reordering when the dates are equivalent."

For example, 1992 and 92 are equivalent years and comparing them should not
trigger reordering if the month and year are equivalent... (note, In my
opinion a day value of 8 compared with 08 shouldn't trigger a reordering
either.. it does now. But, that was request 1 of the original post).
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
From: jgd@acl.lanl.gov (Jerry G. DeLapp)
Subject: Re: sort by date sent (several hacks sought)
Reply-To: jgd@acl.lanl.gov
Organization: Advanced Computing Lab, LANL, NM
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:16:13 GMT

>>>>> On 10 Apr 92 06:29:57 GMT, jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) said:

Joe> In article <JGD.92Apr8171718@kodiak.acl.lanl.gov> jgd@acl.lanl.gov (Jerry G. DeLapp) writes:

Joe>    I typically sort by date sent when using vm.

Joe> Not unless you're using sorting code that didn't come with VM.  VM doesn't
Joe> sort, it groups.  In other words, it puts messages with identical dates
Joe> adjacent to each other.

Fine! "Group by date sent..." Jeez! I bet you'd spend usenet bandwidth
correcting someone's spelling too! ;-).

When a package consistently moves one particular message to the "bottom" of my
INBOX because the day field of the date says 08 instead of 8, I tend to call
that sorting. Mea culpa!

I'd like group-by-date-sent to group by equivalent dates, not identical dates.

Anyone care to post a hack, instead of a semantic critique of the request? 8)

Joe> -- 
Joe> Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>

Joe> Member of the League for Programming Freedom --- send e-mail for details
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From: sti@lusmu.cs.hut.fi (Sami-Jaakko Tikka)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
Subject: mmdf-format folders and window configuration
Date: 15 Apr 92 06:51:01 GMT
Reply-To: Sami.Tikka@hut.fi
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland


Hi there!

Last weekend I changed my mailer.  I used to use MH but now decided to
give VM a shot.  I noticed that VM seems to be able to read MH folders
packed with packf (I think the file is in a format called mmdf after
that).  Now VM doesn't display all the messages in the summary-buffer
when I am visiting a folder that is in the mmdf-format.  It seems to
think that some messages are just one big message and displays only
the first one of them.

I used MH 6.7.2 and VM 5.32.  Does this work OK for anyone else?

I saved a couple of messages in the file that was in mmdf-format.
They don't show up in the summary buffer at all. They are there
because by selecting the last message and scrolling to it's end I see
that the messages are there appended to the end.

Another thing yet: I am having the summary-buffer displayed all the
time.  When I want to reply to a message, the reply-buffer is placed
in the small window that had summary-buffer in it.  Is there a way to
make it automatically grow the window or to use the bigger window the
messge-buffer was in?

Thank you.
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 21:23:56 -0400
Reply-To: jewell@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU
From: Darrin Jewell <jewell@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU>
Subject: empty folder bug
VM: 5.32
Emacs: 18.57

If M-x vm is called when my inbox is empty and there is no new
mail, it signals the error:
Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil

I never encountered this error in vm-5.31.

It seems that it's trying to find headers in
a message that doesn't exist... There doesn't seem
to be a check to make sure that the current message isn't nil.

The following is a backtrace captured from setting debug-on-error t.
I've removed the byte-code lines.  The problem is very
easily duplicated at my end, so let me know if you need any more info.

Signalling: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
  vm-vheaders-of(nil)
  vm-preview-current-message()
  vm(nil nil)
  call-interactively(vm)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
* call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

-darrin  (jewell@fenchurch.mit.edu)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 00:58:33 -0400
Reply-To: jewell@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9204100458.AA13042@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU>
From: Darrin Jewell <jewell@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: feature request: partially composed messages folder
X-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
	<KPC.92Mar3134002@zog.arc.nasa.gov>
A while back...
You mentioned that you never got comments on your proposal
to save partially composed messages in their folder.
I think this would be particularly useful...

     -darrin  (jewell@fenchurch.mit.edu)
(catching up on my mail backlog...)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 00:33:19 -0400
Reply-To: jewell@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9204100433.AA12972@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU>
From: Darrin Jewell <jewell@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU>
Subject: small edit message bug
VM: 5.32
Emacs: 18:57

This may seem stupid and obvious, but it does appear to be a bug:

If you edit a message, and then exit the folder containing that
message, emacs later signals the error:
"Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
when you attempt to C-c C-c, "vm-edit-messae-end"

It does, however do the right thing if the folder is still
loaded up, but the message has been removed.  In that case, it reports:
"The original copy of this message has been expunged"

Another bug: 
   Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to track it down very far... 
Often, if I have vm loaded up, but am working in another
buffer, I simply execute the command "M-x vm".  This results 
in the error:
"Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil"
Under vm-5.31, this would just select the vm buffer and
get all my new mail.  (note that I also changed a few
of the configuration variables when I switched to vm-5.32)


Also.. after reading most of my backlog bug-vm mail, I realized
that the autosave infinite loop bug I reported the other day
has been rehashed on this list a few times already.. sorry about that.

   HAVE A DAY
     -darrin  (jewell@fenchurch.mit.edu)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
From: jgd@acl.lanl.gov (Jerry G. DeLapp)
Subject: sort by date sent (several hacks sought)
Reply-To: jgd@acl.lanl.gov
Organization: Advanced Computing Lab, LANL, NM
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:17:18 GMT


In vm-5.32...

1)
I typically sort by date sent when using vm. One thing that bites me once in a
while is when I receive a message where the date field looks like "08 Apr 92"

Just about every mailer I deal with gives dates that look like "8 Apr 92"

I've looked at RFC822, and it appears to be ambiguous about whether the first
type is valid or not (it says 1*2DIGIT, where digit is 0..9).

The effect of the first type is to cause the message to sort after all
messages with dates of the second type.

I'm wondering if anyone has a hack that makes the date field sort numerically
instead of lexically. I took a look at the .el stuff today, but quickly
decided that I was in over my head.

2)
Every once in a while some stupid mailer gives 4 digit year values (e.g.
1992 instead of 92). I know that isn't RFC822, but it'd sure be nice to have a
hack that understood 4 digit years and caused them to sort "correctly" with
respect to the 2 digit variety.

3)
From what I can tell, sorting by date sent doesn't pay attention to the time
part of the date. Is there such a thing as sort by date and time sent?

Inquiring minds want to know...
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Computing beyond the Bleeding Edge -- The Advanced Computing Laboratory
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 14:16:45 HKT
From: frank@citihk.com (Frank Siebenlist)
Subject: problem with FCC in vm-5.32 (beta)
From: jayb@qsun.ATT.COM (Jay Borkenhagen)
Subject: suggestions
Reply-To: jayb@qsun.att.com (Jay Borkenhagen)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 15:55:23 GMT

I mentioned the following to Kyle via email, but I thought I'd post
them here so that if others follow-up with similar requests, Kyle
might be able to add them all at once.


1) I'd like to be able to edit an offered default folder name, so that
   if I'm offered ~/some/dumb/file as default I can edit this in the
   minibuffer to get ~/some/stupid/file or ~/some/dumb/File without
   typing in the whole new folder name, and

2) I'd like there to be a command under vm-isearch-forward to skip
   past the current message and resume searching there.  Frequently
   when I'm vm-isearch-forward'ing with a none-too-restrictive search
   string I'll come to a LONG message with many occurrences of the
   string.  If I know the occurrence I'm looking for isn't in the long
   message, I'd like to continue my search beyond that long message
   (whether I'm searching forward or backward).

						Jay Borkenhagen
From: jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
Subject: Re: sort by date sent (several hacks sought)
Date: 10 Apr 92 06:29:57 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department
In-reply-to: jgd@acl.lanl.gov's message of 9 Apr 92 00:17:18 GMT

In article <JGD.92Apr8171718@kodiak.acl.lanl.gov> jgd@acl.lanl.gov (Jerry G. DeLapp) writes:

   I typically sort by date sent when using vm.

Not unless you're using sorting code that didn't come with VM.  VM doesn't
sort, it groups.  In other words, it puts messages with identical dates
adjacent to each other.

-- 
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Member of the League for Programming Freedom --- send e-mail for details
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
From: jgd@acl.lanl.gov (Jerry G. DeLapp)
Subject: Re: sort by date sent (several hacks sought)
Reply-To: jgd@acl.lanl.gov
Organization: Advanced Computing Lab, LANL, NM
	<JBW.92Apr10153154@bigbird.bu.edu>
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:02:37 GMT

>>>>> On 10 Apr 92 20:31:54 GMT, jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) said:

Joe> In article <JGD.92Apr9191219@kodiak.acl.lanl.gov> jgd@acl.lanl.gov (Jerry G. DeLapp) writes:

Joe>    "Could the final release of vm-5.32 (or at least the next release)
Joe>    sorting by date sent please handle both RFC832 and RFC1123 style dates
Joe>    and not trigger reordering when the dates are equivalent."

Joe>    For example, 1992 and 92 are equivalent years and comparing them should not
Joe>    trigger reordering if the month and year are equivalent...

Joe> This is easy.  Convert the strings to numbers and then apply `mod' with
Joe> 1900 as second argument.  This will work for at least the next 1807 years.

If it's so easy, can you please provide the hacks? That's what I was asking
for, not the algorithm.

I've looked at the code and it's not obvious to me where/how to do this... I'm
not an elisp hacker (and I don't have the time to become one this week). I did
try some things myself, none of which worked.

I'm sure that since this is so easy, someone who knows the code will be happy
to post the hacks.

Joe> -- 
Joe> Enjoy,

Joe> Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>
Joe> Member of the League for Programming Freedom --- send e-mail for details
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Computing beyond the Bleeding Edge -- The Advanced Computing Laboratory
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 12:48:15 -0400
Message-Id: <9204071648.AA00497@wendy-fate.UU.NET>
Subject: How do I get "re:" in my subject line?
References: <OLSTAD.92Apr7104755@kl.msc.edu>
Ken Olstad writes:
 > Other mailers I've seen insert a "re:" or a "Re:" in front of the
 > subject.  My vm version (5.31 beta) doesn't.  What's the best way to
 > make this happen?

[ Discussions of the beta code should be occur in gnu.emacs.vm.bug/bug-vm ]

(setq vm-reply-subject-prefix "Re: ")
Xref: sparky gnu.emacs.help:2343 comp.emacs:1969
From: palmerf@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Frank Palmer)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs
Subject: can't get emacs to work on a mime2a
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:46:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center


Hello!

I have hooked up a mime2a to my NeXTStation (unix) and set it up in my ttys
file. There is a termcap entry for mime2a in /etc/termcap and in my csh
on the mime $TERM=mime2a  I can use kermit, regular unix commands, etc.
I can not get emacs to work!  When I first start it up, emacs does not 
refresh the screen. (leaves previous text on screen)  when I try to get the
emacs help,  garbage gets printed on my screen. I am using gnu emacs
18.55.something, and I have read the faq and the emacs manual.  I'm wondering
if I somehow need to tell emacs what terminal I'm using in addition to my
computer?  

I'm a newbie to emacs (and unix) so any help will help.

Thanx

palmer@macc.wisc.edu (Frank Palmer)
From: mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us (Mike J. Sangrey)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: vi?.el mode
Summary: Request vi mode emulation
Keywords: vip.el vi.el
Date: 8 Apr 92 11:55:55 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Humble Pilgrimage Palace

Recently, someone mentioned a vi emulation mode.  I have version 3.5
of vip.el.  I believe there is something more current - 4.??.  

Would someone be so kind as to email a "I volunteer to send it to
you" message.

Thank you

mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: dstolan%asylum.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Deepak Tolani)
Subject: c++ editing package
Date: 11 Apr 92 13:24:36 MDT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
Distribution: usa


I'd be grateful if somebody would help me obtain 
a good gnu emacs elisp package for c++ editing. 
Thanks in advance.


Deepak tolani
dstolan@asylum.utah.edu
From: tfb@sinkhole.unf.edu (Tom Blakely)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: is gnu.emacs.sources archived?
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:11:48 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of North Florida, Jacksonville

Specifically, I am trying to find evi of which I only got 3 of the five
parts from the recent posting.

Thanks.

Tom Blakely - Unix Systems Administrator                UNF Computing Services
tfb@sinkhole.unf.edu                                    tfb@unf1vm.BITNET
tfb@sinkhole.UUCP                                       (904)646-2820

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From: gnb@duke.bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Setting fill-column in local vars
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:41:25 GMT
Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young, Melbourne, Australia

I have a file that I want the fill-column set to 79.  This is an
obvious case for local variables.  I have tried a whole range of
things here:

fill-column: 79
eval: (set-fill-column 79)
eval: (setq fill-column 79)

none of which work.  (But the other local vars are being set)  

Any hints?

Greg.
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: scott@statsci.com (Scott Blachowicz)
Subject: Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell...
Reply-To: scott@statsci.com
Organization: Statistical Sciences, Inc., Seattle, WA USA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:21:57 GMT

Hi-
   I just loaded GnuEmacs 18.58 for our HP9000/720 running HPUX 8.05. Now,
when I do a 'M-x cmushell', I get the above message. It appears that a
controlling terminal is not getting setup properly any more (I've been running
18.55). Now, I could swear that I've seen this mentioned recently, but I can't
find any mention of it in our news spool.
   I just tried setting HAVE_SETSID, but that didn't appear to fix it (unless
I spaced something somewhere).

Any ideas?

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From: picasso@bass.bu.edu (David Ondzes)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: help with elisp code
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:45:30 GMT
Distribution: gnu.emacs.help
Organization: /usr2/graduate/picasso/.organization


Hello,

	I am trying to use the replace-string command. How 
does elisp know what string to work on if it is not done
interactively ? How can I save the result ?
	For example if I have a variable that has the value "ArrayOb.cxx"
and I want to do a (replace-string ".cxx" ""). In effect deleting the
extention. I have tried (setq myvariable (string-replace ".cxx" "")) this
assign "done" to the variable myvariable. 

Thanks in advance
David
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: jungsj@nynexst.com (Shana-Ji Jung)
Subject: HELP - cut and paste under xemacs and emacstool?
Organization: Nynex Science & Technology
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 20:27:21 GMT

Hi,

	I just compiled xemacs and emacstool from emacs.18.58 for my SUN4(SS2)
	under SUN/OS 4.1.1.  It works just fine and I can address the cursor
	using the mouse.  However, when I try to do the cut and paste function
	in the window.  The mouse just doesnot answer to my action.  Is anybody
	know what's going wrong and how can I fix this problem?

	I am not read this news group regularly. Any response, please e-mail
	me at "jungsj@nynexst.com".  Thank you very much!!

shana
	

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From: ramberg@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Jim Ramberg)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: ispell is hanging
Date: 8 Apr 1992 20:54:12 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley: Center for EUV Astrophysics
NNTP-Posting-Host: sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu

Hello:
	I have recently ported over a copy of ispell, byte-compiled
it and set up my .emacs as per the instuction. The problem arises when
I try to execute a command.The command is accepted and all that, but
then I see what looks to me an inifinte loop of 
Garbage Collecting...done
I can't exit from it. In fact, I have kill the the enitre login
process.  any suggestions will be highly appreciated.
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: adam@dadhb1.ti.com (Adam Hudd)
Subject: Re: Setting default directory at startup
Organization: mpd
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 02:39:49 GMT

>Patrick Goebel writes:
>   When using emacs as the editor for MH, a C-x i brings up the
>   ~/Mail/drafts directory by default.  I'd prefer it to come up with ~/
>   as the default.
>
>   Although I have used an example from MH, my general question is, can
>   one set the default directory for commands such as C-x i at the time
>   of starting up emacs without explicitly cd'ing to that directory.


Patrick,

Try this in your .emacs file:

  (setq default-directory "~/")

Adam
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: axel@uni-paderborn.de (Axel Boldt)
Subject: Can abbrev delete following word-delimiter?
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 06:23:03 GMT


I would like to have an abbreviation which, after expansion, deletes
the following character, which is a necessarily a word-delimiter.

That is, if 'eg' is the abbreviation for 'e.~g.~' and I type
'eg I think', it should expand to 'e.~g.~I think'.

Possible?

Bye,
  Axel.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: dzabel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Dirk Zabel)
Subject: Re: Demacs
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: gnu.emacs.help
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 11:35:10 GMT

In article <9204031814.AA04605@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU> m-lp9966@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU (Lewis Perin) writes:
[...]
>Hi. I've been using Demacs with great satisfaction, but I have one
>frustrating problem.  (By the way, I should probably apologize in advance
>for clumsiness as a newshound.  This is the first submission I've made,
>and the article in news.announce.newusers is unavailable on this machine.
[...]
>When I issue shell-command (M-!) to do a DOS command, I get
>  Opening output file: access denied, d:/
>Here's my autoexec.bat:
[...]
>SET TMP=D:\
         ~~~~

The problem here is that demacs expects %TMP to be the FILENAME used for
output-redirection of the spawned shell, but D:\ is a directory -- a 
very common error, I suspect, as every other program I know expects %TMP
or %TEMP to contain the name of a directory where to put temporary files.
-- Dirk
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