[0020]  acevedo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Emacs_Hackers 02/25/91 22:14 (35 lines)
Subject: zwrite.el

I have my own version of this, which I wrote from scratch. So far, the
only zsends that I've seen are modelled after eichin's original, which
in my opinion has the following current deficiencies:

	* Uses `call-process' instead of `start-process'.

	* Doesn't allow you to vary the arguments to zwrite, either for
	  all zwrites or for different types of zwrites. 

Mine does the above, plus:

	* Completion on instances and usernames. (good to hear eichin
	  incorporated this into his ...). However, you can set a
	  default alist of instances/usernames, and you can do:

		(setq zwrite-personals
			'(("me" "acevedo")
			  ("krishna" "krishna")
			  ("ken" "kkkken")
			  ("lucien" "lwvanels")))

	  so that I can use "real" names to map to usernames. 

	* `zwrite-resend' yanks the last zwrite.

	* Separate buffer for each zwrite, which keeps all your previous
	  messages, so you can see what you've zwritten.

At any rate, mine is a far cry from the ideal zwrite. There's lots of
work that I want to do on it, first of which is cleaning up the code,
which is not, admittedly, very well written. (Though it works.) 


Raul
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