{ "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "# PROMPTER (man)\n\n## NAME\n\nprompter - nmh's prompting editor front-end\n\n## SYNOPSIS\n\nprompter [-help] [-version] [-erase chr] [-kill chr] [-prepend | -noprepend] [-rapid | -no-\nrapid] [-doteof | -nodoteof] file\n\n## DESCRIPTION\n\nprompter is an editor front-end for nmh which allows rapid composition of messages. This\nprogram is not normally invoked directly by users but takes the place of an editor and acts\nas an editor front-end. It operates on an RFC 822-style message draft skeleton specified by\nfile, normally provided by the nmh commands comp, dist, forw, or repl.\n\n## Sections\n\n- **NAME**\n- **SYNOPSIS**\n- **DESCRIPTION**\n- **FILES**\n- **PROFILE COMPONENTS**\n- **SEE ALSO**\n- **DEFAULTS**\n- **CONTEXT**\n- **HELPFUL HINTS**\n- **BUGS**\n\nUse structuredContent.sections for detailed options, examples, and full documentation.\n" } ], "structuredContent": { "command": "PROMPTER", "section": "", "mode": "man", "summary": "prompter - nmh's prompting editor front-end", "synopsis": "prompter [-help] [-version] [-erase chr] [-kill chr] [-prepend | -noprepend] [-rapid | -no-\nrapid] [-doteof | -nodoteof] file", "tldr_summary": null, "tldr_examples": [], "tldr_source": null, "flags": [], "examples": [], "see_also": [ { "name": "comp", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/comp/1/json" }, { "name": "dist", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dist/1/json" }, { "name": "forw", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/forw/1/json" }, { "name": "repl", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/repl/1/json" }, { "name": "whatnow", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/whatnow/1/json" } ], "section_outline": [ { "name": "NAME", "lines": 2, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "SYNOPSIS", "lines": 3, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "DESCRIPTION", "lines": 49, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "FILES", "lines": 3, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "PROFILE COMPONENTS", "lines": 3, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "SEE ALSO", "lines": 2, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "DEFAULTS", "lines": 4, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "CONTEXT", "lines": 2, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "HELPFUL HINTS", "lines": 6, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "BUGS", "lines": 3, "subsections": [] } ], "sections": { "NAME": { "content": "prompter - nmh's prompting editor front-end\n", "subsections": [] }, "SYNOPSIS": { "content": "prompter [-help] [-version] [-erase chr] [-kill chr] [-prepend | -noprepend] [-rapid | -no-\nrapid] [-doteof | -nodoteof] file\n", "subsections": [] }, "DESCRIPTION": { "content": "prompter is an editor front-end for nmh which allows rapid composition of messages. This\nprogram is not normally invoked directly by users but takes the place of an editor and acts\nas an editor front-end. It operates on an RFC 822-style message draft skeleton specified by\nfile, normally provided by the nmh commands comp, dist, forw, or repl.\n\nprompter is particularly useful when composing messages over slow network or modem lines. It\nis an nmh program in that it can have its own profile entry with switches, but it is not in-\nvoked directly by the user. The commands comp, dist, forw, and repl invoke prompter as an\neditor, either when invoked with -editor prompter, or by the profile entry \"Edi-\ntor: prompter\", or when given the command edit prompter at the \"What now?\" prompt.\n\nFor each empty component prompter finds in the draft, the user is prompted for a response; A\n will cause the whole component to be left out. Otherwise, a `\\' preceding a will continue the response on the next line, allowing for multiline components. Con-\ntinuation lines must begin with a space or tab.\n\nEach non-empty component is copied to the draft and displayed on the terminal.\n\nThe start of the message body is denoted by a blank line or a line of dashes. If the body is\nnon-empty, the prompt, which isn't written to the file, is\n\n--------Enter additional text\n\nor (if -prepend was given)\n\n--------Enter initial text\n\nMessage-body typing is terminated with an end-of-file (usually CTRL-D). With the -doteof\nswitch, a period on a line all by itself also signifies end-of-file. At this point control\nis returned to the calling program, where the user is asked \"What now?\". See whatnow(1) for\nthe valid options to this query.\n\nBy using the -prepend switch, the user can add type-in to the beginning of the message body\nand have the rest of the body follow. This is useful for the forw command.\n\nBy using the -rapid switch, if the draft already contains text in the message-body, it is not\ndisplayed on the user's terminal. This is useful for low-speed terminals.\n\nThe line editing characters for kill and erase may be specified by the user via the arguments\n-kill chr and -erase chr, where chr may be a character; or `\\nnn', where \"nnn\" is the octal\nvalue for the character.\n\nAn interrupt (usually CTRL-C) during component typing will abort prompter and the nmh command\nthat invoked it. An interrupt during message-body typing is equivalent to CTRL-D, for his-\ntorical reasons. This means that prompter should finish up and exit.\n\nThe first non-flag argument to prompter is taken as the name of the draft file, and subse-\nquent non-flag arguments are ignored.\n", "subsections": [] }, "FILES": { "content": "$HOME/.mhprofile The user profile\n/tmp/prompter* Temporary copy of message\n", "subsections": [] }, "PROFILE COMPONENTS": { "content": "prompter-next: To name the editor to be used on exit from .B prompter\nMsg-Protect: To set mode when creating a new draft\n", "subsections": [] }, "SEE ALSO": { "content": "comp(1), dist(1), forw(1), repl(1), whatnow(1)\n", "subsections": [] }, "DEFAULTS": { "content": "`-prepend'\n`-norapid'\n`-nodoteof'\n", "subsections": [] }, "CONTEXT": { "content": "None\n", "subsections": [] }, "HELPFUL HINTS": { "content": "The -rapid option is particularly useful with forw, and -noprepend is useful with comp -use.\n\nThe user may wish to link prompter under several names (e.g., \"rapid\") and give appropriate\nswitches in the profile entries under these names (e.g., \"rapid: -rapid\"). This facilitates\ninvoking prompter differently for different nmh commands (e.g., \"forw: -editor rapid\").\n", "subsections": [] }, "BUGS": { "content": "prompter uses stdio(3), so it will lose if you edit files with nulls in them.\n\nnmh-1.7.1 1999-04-30 PROMPTER(1mh)", "subsections": [] } } } }