macros and templates (was: why is mutt better?)

[Mark Weinem]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Jeremy Blosser wrote:

> 1) create the templates you want, using your editor of choice
> 2) create macros that change the value of 'editor' to call a script/etc.
> that processes the reply+template and calls your editor, then set 'editor'
> back to the default, eg:
> 
> macro index r :set editor=replyscript<enter><reply>:set editor=default<enter>
> 
> With forms of this method the "template" isn't even limited to a text-based
> construct, it can really be anything at all.

Could you please give an example of such a replyscript? I want to
reply with a preformulated standard mail (standard.txt). 

The editor I use is gnuclient.


Regards
Mark Weinem

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