On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:03:37PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > If I wanted to put some lines of text from, say a manual page, into an > email that I compose (in mutt/vi), how would I best / most easily do this? > > I know about vi's ":r!" command which places the output of a program > into the current file. > > I'm not using X here, just plain console with exim / fetchmail / > procmail / mutt / vim. :)
...ok, memo to Self: think, then write, and read *with* comprehension.... Um, I'm not 'zactly sure, but you want to mess with the -t or -T options to man, and find a groff output device that specifies straight ASCII. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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