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Re: getting data into mails



Sven Burgener <svenb@bluewin.ch> writes:

> 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. :)

you can also start emacs, use M-x man RET <page> and then save the output
to a file.

-- 
Felix Natter



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