whatnow - prompting front-end for send (only available
within the message handling system, mh)
whatnow [options] [file]
Specifies the folder in which whatnow searches for the
draft message. By default, the current message in the
named folder is used. If you wish to specify another message,
use the -draftmessage option. For more information
on using a draft folder, see comp(1). The -draftfolder
option can be set up in your user profile; see mh_profile(4) for more information. Specifies the draft message
to be used. If you specify a folder with the -draftfolder
option, the -draftmessage option takes the number of a
message in that folder. If you do not specify a folder,
-draftmessage takes the name of a file. If you do not give
an absolute pathname (one beginning with a / or or ),
-draftmessage assumes that the file is located in your
Mail directory. (This is different from the file argument
to whatnow, which assumes that the file you name is in
your current working directory.) Specifies the name of
the editor you want to use to edit the draft message. Any
legal editor can be specified. This option is used only if
you select the edit response to the What now? prompt.
Prints a list of the valid options for this command. Prevents
the initial invocation of an editor when an MH command
is run. Normally, when you enter an MH command such
as comp, dist, forw, or repl, the whatnow program is
called to start the initial edit of the draft message. If
you add this option to the whatnow entry in your is disabled.
This is a convenient way of disabling this edit for
all MH commands, rather than adding the -noedit entry to
the entries for the individual commands in Specifies the
prompt used by whatnow. The prompt you receive when you
invoke whatnow can be specified as a string with this
option. If the prompt contains spaces, you must enclose
the entire string in double quotes (" "). The default
prompt is What now?
After you have finished editing a draft message in comp,
dist, forw or repl, the whatnow program prompts you for
the next required action. Press <Return> at the What now?
prompt to see a list of the available responses. These
responses are:
display [options] edit [editor] [options] list [options]
push [options] quit [-delete] refile [option] +folder send
[options] whom [options]
For more information on the options available with these
commands, see the following reference pages: refile(1),
send(1), whom(1).
Use display if you have been using repl or dist and want
to see the original message. Use edit if you want to continue
editing the draft. Use list to display the draft
message. If you use push, send operates in the background
and frees your terminal while the message is being sent.
Use quit to exit from whatnow and to save the draft message.
The -delete option to quit will exit from whatnow
and delete the draft message.
Use refile +folder to refile the draft message in a specified
folder. The send response will cause the message to
be delivered. Use whom to find out who will receive the
mail when it is sent.
Unless the -noedit option is given, the editor starts when
whatnow is invoked.
For the edit response, you can specify an editor if you
wish to override the editor specified in your file. If you
specify an editor with the edit response, any valid option
to the editor is valid. Similarly, for the send and whom
responses, any valid option to send and whom commands,
respectively, are valid.
For the push response, use any valid option to send. MH
invokes send with the -push option.
For the refile response, any valid option to the fileproc
is valid. The fileproc is the element of your mail profile
which defines the program used to refile messages in
another folder. For more information, see mh_profile(4).
For the display and list responses, any valid argument to
the lproc is valid. If any non-option arguments are present,
then the pathname of the draft is excluded from the
argument list given to the lproc (this is useful for listing
another MH message). The lproc is the element in your
mail profile which defines the program used to display
draft messages on your screen. For more information, see
mh_profile(4).
See mh_profile(4) for further information about how editors
are used by MH. It also describes lproc and fileproc
and shows how complex variables can be used to direct the
actions performed by whatnow.
Although whatnow is usually invoked by other commands, you
can use it as a separate command. You can run whatnow on a
named file by specifying the file as the file argument. If
you do not give an absolute pathname (one beginning with a
/ or or ), whatnow assumes that the named file is in your
current working directory. If you want to run whatnow on
an existing message, use the -draftfolder and -draftmessage
options.
If the sendproc entry in your is send, whatnow uses a
built-in program rather than running the regular send. If
you define your own sendproc program, you should not call
it send, as whatnow will not run it.
Path: To determine your MH directory
Draft-Folder: To find the default draft folder
Editor: To override the default editor
lasteditor-next: To name an editor to be used after exit
from lasteditor
fileproc: Program to refile the message
lproc: Program to list the contents of a message
sendproc: Program to send the message
whomproc: Program to determine who a message would go to
In the following example, whatnow takes the current message
in the folder +drafts, and asks what you want to do
with it: % whatnow -draftfolder +drafts What now? In the
following example, whatnow takes message 6 from the folder
+drafts: % whatnow -draftfolder +drafts -draftmessage 6
What now? The following example sets the prompt to be Now
What?: % whatnow -prompt "Now What?" Now what?
The user profile.
comp(1), send(1), whom(1)
whatnow(1)
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