Hi Jon, hi list,
* Jon Lawrance (JL) writes:
JL> When I get an email, quite often I need to choose a reply from a
JL> possible list of 5 canned answers.
JL> I understand there are keyboard shortcuts where I can type a keyword
JL> and hit Alt+space or something like that. But when I have lots of
JL> different replies for each folder, it gets near impossible to remember
JL> what they are.
JL> Is there a way to do this
yes, there is.
JL> perhaps using another application
no, no ;)
JL> or is this a high priority feature that The Bat team should look
JL> at?
[...]
JL> Any suggestions?
Daniel had the idea in [1]. I found a much simpler way to get a "quick
menu" for quick templates:
Here is the quick template you should use for mails you have to
reply to in different ways using some canned answers:
______________________________________________________________________
%CLEAR
------------------------------------------------------------
mail from: %OFromName <%OFromAddr>
to: %oToName <%OToAddr>
subject: %osubj
------------------------------------------------------------
Standard reply template t_handle_s%cursor
<canned answer 1 description> t_handle_1
<canned answer 2 description> handle_2
<canned answer 3 description> handle_3
<canned answer 4 description> t_hdl_4
<canned answer 5 description> templ_handle_5
<canned answer 6 description> handle_06
<canned answer 7 description> t_handle_7
<...> ...
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Every time you reply to a message you'll see information about sender,
receiver, subject and describtions and handles (= names) of all
relevant templates you might want to use.
Look at the %cursor macro. Assumed you created quick templates for all
your canned answers you just have to move your cursor down to the
wanted handle and finally press Ctrl+Space. This is really quick! (The
handles must be aligned on right of course)
This is even a better solution than selecting templates directly from
the menu (Utilities -> Insert quick template) because a) you can list
only the templates you want and b) you can order, arrange etc. them as
you like (with separators...).
A canned answer template could look line this (%CLEAR is important!):
______________________________________________________________________
%CLEAR%-Hello %AbOFromFirstName="%OFromFirstName",
* you wrote:
%QUOTES
No problem, [...]
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Regards, Jon
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Maybe one could use such a quick menu as a folder template for some
mailing lists (those without reply-to: and with the need for setting a
to: in folder templates) and let the user choose between "reply to
list", "reply to author" etc.?
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