3 mhe \- Display interface to Rand Mail Handler
6 is a program that provides an Emacs-based display-oriented front end to the
7 Rand Mail Handler. By Emacs-based we mean that it is actually implemented as
8 an extensive macro package in Emacs, thereby providing access to full Emacs
9 at all points. By display-oriented, we mean that it provides windows on mail
10 messages and headers so that you can edit your mail directory as if it were
13 To get started using \fIMHE\fR without being an expert at \fIMH\fR, just
14 type ``mhe'' to the shell. It will start up Emacs, load the macro package,
15 tell you how to initialize things if you have not already done so, and then
16 (assuming things are initialized properly) load your inbox headers into its
17 current window in a buffer named ``+inbox''. You can then type various
18 1-character commands to do mail operations. The ``?'' command asks for help.
20 If you want to use the Emacs that is inside \fIMHE\fR, just visit a file
21 with C-X C-V, in the normal way. If you want to return to the \fIMHE\fR
22 code, just make the buffer ``+inbox'' visible again; the key bindings are
23 buffer-local, and will magically return to their mail-reading meanings.
27 mh (1) - the Rand Mail Handler
31 There is a fundamental design bug in the Unix kernel that prevents more than
32 one Emacs process from being able to run at a time. \fIMHE\fR is implemented
33 in Emacs. This means that you cannot have a mail-reading job and an editing
34 job active simultaneously. However, since you have access to all of Emacs
35 while inside \fIMHE\fR, this is not a serious problem.
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