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PROGRAM:

NAME

prompter - prompting editor front-end for nmh

SYNOPSIS

prompter [-erase chr] [-kill chr] [-prepend | -noprepend] [-rapid | -norapid] [-doteof |
-nodoteof] file [-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

Prompter is an editor front-end for nmh which allows rapid composition of messages. This
program is not normally invoked directly by users but takes the place of an editor and
acts as an editor front-end. It operates on an RFC 822 style message draft skeleton
specified by file, normally provided by the nmh commands comp, dist, forw, or repl.

Prompter is particularly useful when composing messages over slow network or modem lines.
It is an nmh program in that it can have its own profile entry with switches, but it is
not invoked directly by the user. The commands comp, dist, forw, and repl invoke prompter
as an editor, either when invoked with -editor prompter, or by the profile entry
“Editor: prompter”, or when given the command edit prompter at the “What now?” prompt.

For each empty component prompter finds in the draft, the user is prompted for a response;
A <RETURN> will cause the whole component to be left out. Otherwise, a `\' preceding a
<RETURN> will continue the response on the next line, allowing for multiline components.
Continuation lines must begin with a space or tab.

Each non-empty component is copied to the draft and displayed on the terminal.

The start of the message body is denoted by a blank line or a line of dashes. If the body
is non-empty, the prompt, which isn't written to the file, is

--------Enter additional text

or (if -prepend was given)

--------Enter initial text

Message-body typing is terminated with an end-of-file (usually CTRL-D). With the -doteof
switch, a period on a line all by itself also signifies end-of-file. At this point
control is returned to the calling program, where the user is asked “What now?”. See
whatnow (1) for the valid options to this query.

By using the -prepend switch, the user can add type-in to the beginning of the message
body and have the rest of the body follow. This is useful for the forw command.

By using the -rapid switch, if the draft already contains text in the message-body, it is
not displayed on the user's terminal. This is useful for low-speed terminals.

The line editing characters for kill and erase may be specified by the user via the
arguments -kill chr and -erase chr, where chr may be a character; or `\nnn', where “nnn”
is the octal value for the character.

An interrupt (usually CTRL-C) during component typing will abort prompter and the nmh
command that invoked it. An interrupt during message-body typing is equivalent to CTRL-D,
for historical reasons. This means that prompter should finish up and exit.

The first non-flag argument to prompter is taken as the name of the draft file, and
subsequent non-flag arguments are ignored.

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