some mua will allow you to use an external editor, and if that is an arbitrary program then you can do your own. ie call a nice editor with a random bit inserted at the top.
perhaps. On Tue, 17 May 2005 13:33:58 -0700 darren kirby wrote: > quoth the Etaoin Shrdlu: > > I know this is silly and OT, but after some googling seems to me that > > nothing exists that does what I'm looking for. > > > > When you reply to an email, the MUA more or less automatically starts > > your message with a short intro along the lines of "on %date, %author > > wrote:" or something like that. > > > > Some degree of customization is possible, so many people modify the above > > message in more or less humorous variants (eg, "on %date the world > > stopped and listened as %author contributed the following to > > humanity:"). > > > > There are a lot of email signature generators (fortune, sigrot, etc.), > > but I wasn't able to find an equivalent tool to generate these intros. > > > > Does somebody know if one exists? Or, alternatively, if some collection > > of introductory phrases exists somewhere in Internet (I found none)? > > > > Yes, I know it's silly. Only, with the plenty of tools the opensource > > world gives you, it just seems strange to me that nothing exists to do > > such a simple job. > > > > Thanks > > I am not sure it is possible, if so, I think it would depend on the MUA. For > instance, kmail allows you to use an external program to generate a sig, but > no such option exists for reply statement. You can change it, sure, but there > is no way to get an external program to change it dynamically. > > This isn't to say it isn't possible, just that you need a MUA which will > allow > it. > > -d > -- > darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org > "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." > - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- Nick Rout \ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
