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ELM CONFIGURATION

elm supports user con®guration by means of the the con®guration ®le with the Options Menu > numeric, and boolean variables described below.

String Variables

String variables have the form

string-name = string-value

The following string variables are de®ned.

$HOME/.elm/elmrc con®guration ®le. You can create command. It can contain any combination of the string,

aliassortby

The sort order for the alias index in the Alias Menu. The recognized values

 

are:

 

 

alias

Sort by alias name.

 

name

Sort by the full name of the alias, last name ®rst.

 

text

Sort by the order of the aliases in the alias text ®le.

 

Pre®x the value with reverse- to reverse the sort order. The default is

 

name.

 

alteditor

The name of the editor to use for messages that have initial text (a copied

 

message in a reply, a signature in any outbound message, etc.). when the

 

editor string variable is set to none or builtin. The default is the

 

value of the EDITOR environment variable, if set and nonnull, or

 

/usr/bin/vi otherwise. See also the editor string variable.

alternatives

A list of other machine and user name combinations that you receive for-

 

warded mail from. elm uses this information when a group reply is being

 

processed to ensure that a reply message is not sent to a user and/or

 

machine address that would simply forward the reply message back to you.

 

The default is none.

attribution

Attribution string for replies. When you reply to a message and include the

 

message in the reply, this string is placed at the top of the message. The

 

characters %s are replaced by the full name of the author of the original

 

message. The default is none. For example:

 

attribution = %s wrote:

calendar

The name of your calendar ®le. This is used in conjunction with the Mes-

 

sage Menu < (calendar) command, which scans messages for calendar

 

entries. The default is $HOME//calendar.

charset

The name of the character set used with the MIME Content-Type:

 

header for the text/plain type. It can be any Internet-de®ned charac-

 

ter set name that is a superset of US-ASCII. The default is US-ASCII.

 

For example,

 

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

compatcharsets

A list of Internet-de®ned character sets that are supersets of US-ASCII, so

 

that messages with charset=US-ASCIIcan be displayed without the

 

help of metamail. The default is a string containing the following values:

Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese

ISO-2022-JP

ISO-8859-1

ISO-8859-2

ISO-8859-3

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