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Note that MH-E is supported with MH 6 and Emacs 18 through Emacs 21. Reportedly, large parts of it work with MH 5 and also with Lucid/XEmacs and Epoch, but there are no guarantees. It is also distributed with Lucid/XEmacs, as well as with MH itself.
The keys mentioned in these chapters refer to the default key bindings. If you've changed the bindings, refer to the command summaries at the beginning of each major section in 2. Using MH-E, for a mapping between default key bindings and function names.
This is emphasized because pressing ESC twice or holding it down a second too long so that it repeats gives you an error message.
If you are using Version 20 or earlier of Emacs, you will need to use the DEL key.
You wouldn't ordinarily do this.
See the section Setting Up MH in the MH book.
If your version of MH-E is less
than 6.0, then you will have to set mh-lib and
mh-lib-progs manually too.
A mode changes Emacs to make it easier to edit a particular type of text.
If you're running Emacs under the X Window System, then you would also see a menubar. Under Emacs 21, you would also see a toolbar. I've left out the menubar and toolbar in all of the example screens.
See the section Reading Mail: inc show next prev in the MH book.
See the section
Find and Specify with scan
pick Ranges Sequences in the MH book.
Perhaps you can find the online version of section `Top' in GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. If not, you can order a printed manual, which has the desirable side-effect of helping to support the Free Software Foundation which made all this great software available. You can find an order form by running C-h C-d, or you can request an order form from gnu@gnu.org.
If you want to see your old
mail as well, use F r to pull all your messages into MH-E. Or,
give a prefix argument to mh-rmail so it will prompt you for
folder to visit like F v (for example, C-u M-x mh-rmail
RET bob RET). Both F r and F v are described
in 2.4.3 Organizing Your Mail with Folders.
In previous versions
of MH-E, this option suppressed the confirmation in
mh-kill-folder. Since this kept most users from setting this
option, mh-kill-folder has been modified in version 6.0 to
always ask for confirmation.
Stephen Gildea's favorite binding is (global-set-key "\C-cr" 'mh-rmail).
See the section Bursting Messages in the MH book.
See the section Reading Mail: inc show next prev in the MH book.
See the section Reading MIME Mail in the MH book.
You
can call them directly from Emacs if you're running the X Window
System: type M-! xterm -e mhshow message-number. You can
leave out the `xterm -e' if you use mhlist or
mhstore.
For you Emacs wizards, this is implemented as an Emacs minor mode.
I highly recommend that you use a draft folder so that
you can edit several drafts in parallel. To do so, create a folder
named `+drafts' for example, and add the profile component
`Draft-Folder: drafts' (see mh-profile(5)).
See the section Sending Some Mail: comp send in the MH book.
See the section Replying to Messages: repl in the MH book.
See the section Replying to Messages: repl in the MH book.
See the section Forwarding Messages: forw in the MH book.
See the section Distributing Messages with dist in the MH book.
See the section Sending Some Mail: comp send in the MH book.
To see which options your copy of MH was compiled with, use M-x mh-version (2.7 Miscellaneous Commands).
If you'd rather have the header cleaned up, use C-u r instead of r when replying (see 2.2.1 Replying to Mail).
Supercite is an example of a full-bodied,
full-featured citation package. It is in Emacs versions 19.15 and
later, and its URL is
`ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages/sc3.1.tar.Z'
See the section
What now? -- and the
whatnow Program in the MH book.
MIME is defined in RFC 2045.
See the section Sending MIME Mail in the MH book.
The variable
mh-mime-content-types really should be called
mh-mime-media-types since it holds a list of media types. It
was originally named that way as the media types appear in the
Content-Type header field.
See the section Sending MIME Mail in the MH book.
See the section Sending Some Mail: comp send in the MH book.
See the sections Your Current Folder: folder and Moving and Linking Messages: refile in the MH book.
See the section Sorting Messages: sortm in the MH book.
See the section Using mhl in the MH book.
See the section
Find and Specify with scan
pick Ranges Sequences in the MH book.
See the section Reading Mail: inc show next prev in the MH book.
See the section Finding Messages with pick in the MH book.
See the section Make Message Bookmarks with mark in the MH book.
After reading this article, I questioned Brian about his version of MHE, and received some great ideas for improving MH-E such as a dired-like method of selecting folders; and removing the prompting when sending mail, filling in the blanks in the draft buffer instead. I passed them on to Stephen Gildea, the current maintainer, and he was excited about the ideas as well. Perhaps one day, MH-E will again resemble MHE, although none of these ideas are manifest in Version 5.0.