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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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