MH & nmh: Complete Table of Contents for xmh Section

FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH THIS BOOK

Home Page for This Book
Road Map (overview with suggested starting points)
What's in This Book (short summary of each chapter)
What's New in the Online Edition
Appendix E: Reference Guide
Using This Book (terms for copying, distributing, modifying)
Structure of This Book (organization, files/directories)
Help File for Frames Version

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Examples
List of Example Files
List of Sections Useful for xmh Users
Tables of Contents by Chapter (1, 2, etc.)

PART IV: xmh

Chapter 14: Tour Through xmh

14.0 Chapter Introduction
14.1 Getting Started
14.2 Running xmh
14.3 What's in the xmh Window
14.4 Sending Mail
14.5 Getting New Mail
14.6 Replying to Mail
14.7 Changing Sizes of Each Area
14.8 Searching for Messages
14.9 Forwarding Messages
14.10 Removing Messages
14.11 Leaving xmh
14.12 More About xmh
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Chapter 15: Using xmh

15.0 Chapter Introduction
15.1 Sending Mail
15.1.1 Draft Messages and the drafts Folder
15.1.2 Changing the Draft Message Header
15.1.3 More About Forwarding
15.1.4 More About Replying
15.1.5 Resend Messages with Use As Composition
15.1.6 Aliases
15.2 Scrollbars
15.2.1 When They Appear
15.2.2 Length and Position of the Thumb
15.2.3 Moving the Thumb
15.3 Editing in xmh
15.3.1 Text Editing Commands
15.3.2 Search and Replace
15.3.3 Composition Window Buttons
15.3.4 Reformatting Paragraphs
15.3.5 Line Wrapping
15.3.6 Copy and Paste
15.3.7 Use Another Editor
15.4 Reading Your Mail
15.4.1 Incorporate New Mail
15.4.2 View Window
15.4.3 Line Folding
15.4.4 Message Number Limit
15.5 Printing Your Mail
15.6 Organizing Messages with Folders
15.6.1 Making a New Folder
15.6.2 Folders and Subfolders
15.6.3 Using Another Folder
15.6.4 Moving Messages Between Folders
15.6.5 Linking (not Copying) Messages Between Folders
15.6.6 Deleting (and Restoring) Messages
15.6.7 Rescan Folder
15.6.8 Viewed Message vs. Viewed Folder
15.6.9 Packing a Folder
15.6.10 Sorting a Folder
15.6.11 Deleting a Folder
15.7 Introduction to Sequences
15.8 Using Pick
15.8.1 A Pick Example
15.8.2 Using the Big -Or- Button
15.8.3 Find Other Fields, Skip Fields
15.8.4 Bottom Area of the Pick Window
15.9 Modifying Sequences
15.10 The Master xmh Window
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Chapter 16: Customizing xmh

16.0 Chapter Introduction
16.1 Command-line Settings
16.2 Command-line Options
16.2.1 MH Directory Path
16.2.2 Initial Folder
16.2.3 Toolkit Options
16.3 Changing How Commands Work
16.3.1 HideBoringHeaders
16.3.2 PrintCommand
16.3.3 ReplyInsertFilter
16.3.4 SendBreakWidth
16.3.5 SendWidth
16.3.6 SkipCopied, SkipDeleted, SkipMoved
16.3.7 TocGeometry
16.3.8 TocWidth
16.3.9 ShapeStyle
16.3.10 Summary of Resources
16.4 Changing Buttons; Accelerators
16.4.1 New Accelerator for Compose Message
16.4.2 Redefining Composition Window Buttons
16.4.3 A New Buttonbox for the Main Windows
16.4.4 Adding Color
16.4.5 Moving a Message to a Specific Folder
16.4.6 Changing Command Options with edprofile
16.4.7 Use an External Editor
16.5 Conflicts Between xmh and MH Customization
16.6 Template Draft Files Set Headers
16.7 Changing Table of Contents
16.7.1 Introduction
16.7.2 Using a Standard scan Format File
16.7.3 A Wider Table of Contents
16.8 Changing the Print Command
16.8.1 Grabbing Error Output
16.8.2 Printing with lpr and lp
16.8.3 Other Printer Commands
16.8.4 A Better xmh Printer: xmhprint
16.9 Snooping on xmh
16.9.1 Use the debug Resource
16.9.2 Use Accounting Information
16.9.3 Make a Front End Shell Script
16.9.4 Read the Source Code
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PART VII: APPENDICES

Appendix D: Example Files and Programs

D.16 Explanation of edprofile
D.36 Explanation of xmhprint
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Appendix E: Reference Guide

E.2 xmh Reference Guide
Table 1. Folder (Menu of global commands)
Table 2. Table of Contents (Menu for handling viewed folder)
Table 3. Message (Menu for handling current or selected message)
Table 4. Sequence (Menu for message sequences and searching)
Table 5. View (Menu for handling viewed message)
Table 6. Options (Menu that may be longer some day)
Table 7. Composition window (Buttonbox for handling drafts)
Table 8. xmh Text Editing Commands (Adapted from xmh(1) manual page)
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Last change $Date: 1999/10/10 05:14:05 $

This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This file is freely available; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see the file copying.htm.

Jerry Peek <jpeek@jpeek.com>