Old kmail-1.13.5 question

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 08 May 2014 12:55:08 Nils Kassube did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 May 2014 11:45:51 kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Nils
> > 
> > Kassube did opine:
> > > If you want to insert a command, use the appropriately named
> > > selection button below the input area. BTW: That's where I found
> > > out what the meaning of the "%OTIMELONGEN". And there is a link
> > > "How does this work?" which you may want to click for a short
> > > description.
> > 
> > Well, I did something and now its working to pick up your name in the
> > greeting so thats progress of sorts.  ISTR I removed the locale
> > portion.
> 
> AIUI there is no real locale section but you can have your individual
> locale which you configure somewhere with systemsettings and you can
> have the default C locale (which is English). So "%OTIMELONGEN" is with
> C locale and "%OTIMELONG" is the individual locale which is e.g. German
> for me. So here I have no difference in the time format but the date is
> different. For "%DATEEN" I get "Thu, 8. 05.2014" and for "%DATE" I get
> "Do, 8. 05.2014".
> 
> > As for the "how does this work" pop-ups, the note says there
> > is no help, contributions welcome.
> 
> That's strange - I got a short help even from the Kubuntu-10.04 CD. I
> can't tell you what is missing on your system to get that text back.
> 
> > Thanks Nils.  I'll keep poking at it with a small stick.  I found a
> > link from a SuSe site that doesn't show the leading "O" on them, is
> > there not an actual std for this?
> 
> The "O" refers to the original message. Without the "O" it refers to
> the currently composed message. But I think you should simply use the
> "Insert Command" selection button and not worry about the way the
> commands are written.
> 
> 
> Nils

Strange, last time I clicked on that, no menu's appeared, now its working 
as you can see above.  I might get fawncier, but that will do for most of 
my mailing list traffic, thanks very much Nils for the hint to try it 
again.

Cheers, Gene
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