Re: A couple of very noob questions

[Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 14 May 2010 20:42:21 -0700, Eponymous Eponymous <eponymous2006@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I had a couple of very newbie questions that I haven't been able to figure
> out after looking
> at the manual and google.
> 
> 1. for some reason the cursor in  my summary view is at the top of the frame
> at the oldest message. To remedy
> this I can use the command wl-summary-sort-by-date in the minibuffer and
> that fixes it by moving the cursor to the newest message chronologically
> (note that the ordering of messages itself doesn't change since they're
> already sorted by date). however,  putting (setq wl-summary-sort-by-date t)
> in my .wl doesn't do anything.  Any advice on how to fix this?

I don't seem to have this variable defined?  What version of WL are
you using?  And what version of Emacs?

By the way, to sort from Summary view, simply type "S RET" (for date)

> 2. When I reply to a message (with 'a'),  my frame splits into three (from
> two): a) the summary b) the message i'm replying to and c) my draft. I'd
> like it if I could only have a) and c) but without opening another frame.
> not sure if i'm being clear, but I just want one half of the frame to be
> summary view and one half to be the draft.

I cannot help you; I have simply got into the habit of immediately
hitting "C-x 1" after "a"...

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Eric S Fraga
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