<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"/> <title>Write Message Screen</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="manpage.css" type="text/css"/> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Cone: COnsole Newsreader And Emailer"/> <link rel="up" href="cone00index.html" title="Cone mail client"/> <link rel="prev" href="cone03messageview.html" title="Message View Screen"/> <link rel="next" href="cone05setup.html" title="Setup Screen"/> <link xmlns="" rel="icon" href="icon.gif" type="image/gif"/> <meta xmlns="" name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/> <!-- Copyright 2002 - 2007 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. --> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center" rowspan="1">Write Message Screen</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="cone03messageview.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <span class="application">Cone</span> mail client</th> <td width="20%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="cone05setup.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr/> </div> <div class="chapter" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h2 class="title"><a id="cone04writemessage" shape="rect" name="cone04writemessage"> </a>Write Message Screen</h2> </div> </div> </div> <p>Pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>W</strong></span> opens the “<span class="quote">Write Message</span>” screen. This is the screen where a new message can be typed, and sent. <span class="application">Cone</span> checks for any unfinished messages in the Draft folder, before opening this screen. If the Draft folder contains any messages, <span class="application">Cone</span> offers an option to resume writing an unfinished message, instead of starting a new message. <span class="application">Cone</span> automatically saves a backup copy of the current message being edited, at regular intervals, so that a backup copy can be recovered in the event that <span class="application">Cone</span> is interrupted, or terminated, in a middle of editing a new message. If a backup copy exists, <span class="application">Cone</span> announces the existence of an interrupted message, and prompts to resume writing the interrupted message. An interrupted message must be opened and either: sent, explicitly cancelled, or saved in the Draft folder; before another message can be written.</p> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id524018" shape="rect" name="id524018"> </a>Write Message Screen</h4> </div> </div> </div> <hr /><pre class="programlisting" xml:space="preserve"> <B> EDIT MESSAGE CONE </B> To: John Smith <jsmith@domain.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Patch for filtering module Attachments: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Williams writes: > This patch puts the user lookups into their own functions. Means that > the config files are only read if the user is not found be an earlier > lookup. It would also make it easier to add support to control the > type/order of lookups at runtime, rather than always looking for the > search modules in their built-in order. > > -- > Regards, > > John Smith <B> </B> ^ Mark ^F Full Hdrs ^J Justify ^P Postpone ^S Search ^D Dict Spell ^G Insert File ^K Line Clear ^R Srch/Rplce ^O mOre </pre><hr /> <p>The following keys are available from this screen:</p> <div class="variablelist"> <dl> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>SPACE</strong></span>, <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>W</strong></span>, <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>Y</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>SPACE</strong></span> marks the starting position of a range of text. To delete a block of text: move the cursor to the beginning of the block of text, press <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>SPACE</strong></span>, move the cursor to the end of text, press <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>W</strong></span>. To re-insert this text someplace else, move the cursor to the insertion point and press <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>Y</strong></span> (yank).</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>C</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Cancel composition of the current message. Everything is thrown away, and this screen is closed.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Starts the spell checker (dictionary lookup). Text starting with the cursor position, and until the end of the message, is spell-checked. Words that are not found in the dictionary are highlighted, and the status line lists up to ten suggested replacement words. To replace the highlighted word with one of the suggestions, press the number corresponding to the suggested replacement, or: press <span class="keycap"><strong>I</strong></span> to ignore this occurence of the misspelled word; press <span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span> to ignore all occurencer of the misspelled word, press <span class="keycap"><strong>R</strong></span> to replace the misspelled word with a manually-entered replacement.</p> <p>Note: quoted text in replies (lines that begin with the “<span class="quote">></span>” character), are not spell-checked.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>F</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Turn display of full headers on/off. Initially, only the “<span class="quote">To:</span>”, “<span class="quote">Cc:</span>”, and “<span class="quote">Subject:</span>” headers are shown. <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>F</strong></span> shows additional headers: “<span class="quote">From:</span>”, “<span class="quote">Reply-To:</span>”, “<span class="quote">Bcc:</span>”, and “<span class="quote">Fcc:</span>”.</p> <p>The “<span class="quote">Fcc:</span>” header specifies the folder where a copy of the message is saved, after it's sent. One of the defined “<span class="quote">Sent Mail</span>” special folders is listed in this header. Highlight this header with the cursor, and press <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span> to cycle through the list of available “<span class="quote">Sent Mail</span>” special folders.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>G</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>This key (“<span class="quote">get</span>”) inserts a file into the current text document, at the current cursor position.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>J</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Re-justifies the current paragraph. <span class="application">Cone</span> uses “<span class="quote">lazy</span>” word-wrapping. <span class="application">Cone</span> word-wraps long lines when new text is being added; however when deleting text short lines are not re-wrapped. Pressing this key re-formats the current paragraph to the optimal line length, taking into account all previous editing.</p> <p><span class="application">Cone</span> will not re-justify quoted text in replies. Remove the leading quote characters, “<span class="quote">></span>”, justify, then re-insert the quote characters, if necessary.</p> <p>Technical note: messages composed in <span class="application">Cone</span> are marked as “<span class="quote">flowed-text</span>” MIME plain text. This format uses invisible trailing whitespace to tag paragraph breaks. Mail readers that support “<span class="quote">flowed-text</span>” format (of which <span class="application">Cone</span> is one), are capable of automatically reformatting flowed text into a variable-width display. When composing new text, <span class="application">Cone</span> automatically inserts the appropriate invisible whitespace characters, as needed. Extensive editing may inadvertently delete the flowed-text “<span class="quote">watermarks</span>”, resulting in a line, or two, not wrapping properly on the expected margin break. <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>J</strong></span> reformats the current paragraph, and makes sure that everything is in proper order, automatically restoring any deleted flowed-text trailing whitespace.</p> <p>Liberal use of <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>J</strong></span> during editing is highly encouraged. Not only does this make written text look good, it makes new text look extra-good, in modern mail clients that know how to read flowed-text formatted messages.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>K</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Delete text between the current cursor position, and the end of the line.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span>, <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>R</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Search for a text string starting at the current cursor position, or search and replace text.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>N</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Define a new macro. First, define a text range using <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>SPACE</strong></span> and cursor keys. With the text range highlighted, press <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>N</strong></span>, type in a short abbreviation, then press <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span>.</p> <p>The text range will be memorized, and from this point on, typing the abbreviation will automatically insert the memorized range.</p> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>The abbreviation cannot contain spaces or tabs (the text range itself may contain anything, only the abbreviation cannot have spaces).</p> <p>The memorized text range is inserted verbatim, without reformatting. If memorized text is inserted in a middle of a line, it may be necessary to use <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>J</strong></span> to re-justify the text.</p> </div> <p>If the keyboard has function keys, it is possible to press a function key instead of entering an abbreviation; and use the same function key to insert the memorized text.</p> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>Not all function keys may be available in every situation. <span class="application">gnome-terminal</span>, for example, appropriates <span class="keycap"><strong>F1</strong></span> for its own online help pages; so <span class="keycap"><strong>F1</strong></span> is not available to applications running in a <span class="application">gnome-terminal</span> window.</p> </div> <p>To re-define a macro, highlight another text range, press <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>N</strong></span>, then enter the same abbreviation, or press the same function key.</p> <p>Macros can be deleted from the main setup screen in <span class="application">Cone</span>.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Highlight the “<span class="quote">Attachments:</span>” header and press <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span> to create an attachment by picking a file from an interactive dialog that shows all files in the current directory. Move the cursor to highlight a subdirectory, or the parent directory, and press <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span> to switch to a different directory. Highlight a file to read the file and attach it to the current message.</p> <p>The attachment filename may also be typed directly into the file selection dialog. The attachment filename, relative to the home directory, may also be typed directly into the “<span class="quote">Attachments:</span>” header, instead of pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span>.</p> <p>On most systems it is possible to attach multiple files at the same time by entering a filename pattern, such as “<span class="quote">*.txt</span>” - which selects all files that end in “<span class="quote">.txt</span>”.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>U</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Runs an external editor application, to edit the contents of this message. An external editor must be previously configured by choosing the “<span class="quote">Setup</span>” selection from <span class="application">Cone</span>'s main menu.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>When all is said and done, <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span> sends the message. One, final chance, is offered to cancel, and change one's mind. If the mail server supports <a class="ulink" href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1891.txt" target="_top" shape="rect">Delivery Status Notifications</a>, press <span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> to select delivery notifications options. Where available, press <span class="keycap"><strong>E</strong></span> to encrypt the message, and/or press <span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span> to sign the message, using <span class="application">GnuPG</span>.</p> <p>Encryption/signing options, if available, must be selected before setting any delivery status notification options.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr/> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="cone03messageview.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="u" href="cone00index.html" shape="rect">Up</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="cone05setup.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Message View Screen </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html" shape="rect">Home</a> | <a accesskey="t" href="bk01-toc.html" shape="rect">ToC</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Setup Screen</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>