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- From: dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: '>' prepended to lines even if Edit is selected when forewarding
- Keywords: '>' prepending unwanted
- Message-ID: <1287@ki.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 02:45:36 GMT
- References: <1937@frackit.UUCP>
- Organization: ki Research, Inc
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1937@frackit.UUCP> dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
- |Here's a problem that cropped up with the latest patch (17) for Elm 2.4:
- |
- |When forewarding a message and selecting "n" when asked if you want to
- |edit the outgoing message, ELM insists on prepending the 'greater than'
- |sign (>) to each line. This is very undesirable and greping through the
- |docs has not revealed any voodoo that has changed that is making this
- |happen.
- |
- |On occasion I foreward source or shell archives to people and having
- |that pesky > at the beginning of each line is a royal pain. The
- |inevitable question is: bug or feature? And, can it be turned off?
- |Prior to this patch there would be no > under the conditions stated
- |above.
- |
- |No other problems found so far.
- |--
- | vogon1!compnect!frackit!dave@psuvax1.psu.edu | Dave Ratcliffe |
- | - or - ..uunet!wa3wbu!frackit!dave | Sys. <*> Admin. |
- | | Harrisburg, Pa. |
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- I found this as well. A followup by Syd reported that this is a bug
- that appears to have been introduced in PL17. No report as to when it
- will be fixed.
-
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