prompter Reference Guide
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prompter: prompting editor front-end
- -erase character (default: system value)
- Character that erases previous character
- -kill character (default: system value)
- Character that erases line
- -prepend (default)
- Insert new message text before existing message body
- -noprepend, more...
- Add new message text at end of message
- -rapid, more...
- Don't display message body
- -norapid (default)
- Display message body
- -doteof
- Exit with dot at start of empty line or end-of-input
- -nodoteof (default)
- Only exit with end-of-input character (usually CTRL-D)
- file (required)
- Relative or absolute pathname of draft file
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Last change $Date: 1996/06/06 15:12:44 $
This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email
for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek.
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