Tom Vogt - April, 4th, 1998


		    FEddy configuration guide


when I took over as maintainer of the FEddi-package, I soon found out that a
lot of FEddi's features were available, but not or not very well documented.
This is a try to cover this weakness so everyone who uses FEddy (or for most
of these features, FEddi) can use them. It also details the switches I added
to the .feddirc file. They are marked "FEddy only", so if you use FEddi (i.e.
Oliver's original program) you can skip those.



1. - .feddirc
=============

known switches in .feddirc and what they do:


undocumented:

ConvertChars	(Yes/No)	Special character conversion (default=No)



new - FEddy only:

AreaAlias	(Yes/No)	alias file in folder directories overrides
				global alias definition (default=No)
				See below for details on alias files in folder
				subdirectories. This switch is mainly useful
				for echos where you write with a different
				name, maybe as "Moderator" or newsgroups in
				usenet where you use handles or first names.
				
CutLine		(string)	defines the tearline.
				(default="FEddy (version) via (mailer)")
				if you want to have your own Tearline, define
				it here. 40 characters max, anything longer
				will be cut.
				
CleanRe		(Yes/No)	clean "Re:" from subject line.
				Some mailreaders put a "Re:" in front of the
				subject line for replies. If you think this is
				annoying, activate CleanRe and ftoss will 
				remove all "Re:"s from incoming mails.
				
TossNote	(Yes/No)	make ftoss put "moved/copied from ..." notes
				into the mails it handles via tosspath.
				(default=Yes)
				
HideSyntax	(Yes/No)	hide the chars surrounding highlighted words,
				i.e. if this is turned to Yes (default), the
				word *bold* will be printed in the BoldText
				color and the "*" chars will disappear. Set
				it to know if you want to keep them visible.
				
KeepSearch	(Yes/No)	if you specify yes, FEddy will remember your
				last search and if you hit M-s again, the
				expression to search will be set to the same 
				value.
				(default=Yes)
				
				


2. - ~/fnet/msgbase/* files
===========================

a lot of specific behaviour can be configured by using files residing in
FEddy's msbase-directory. Look into the ../samples directory for examples.



3. - msgbase-Folders
====================

one of the features of FEddy is the possibility to fine-tune every single
Folder. This is done using the same files as above in chapter two, only that
now they reside in the Folder-subdirectories.

for example: If you put a file called 'origins' into ~/fnet/msgbase/ it
defines the origins you can choose from in FEddy. This is the BASE origins
file, because you can also put a file called 'origins' into, say,
~/fnet/msgbase/+LINUX.GER/ which will define origins for the Folder LINUX.GER
_only_. This is the AREA origins file and you can easily see where FEddy is
currently taking its origins from if you look at the bottom of the Folder Info
(M-i), where "BASE" or "AREA" will show you this.

this has been confirmed for sure (i.e. digging through the sourcecode) to work
for origins and aliases, and it is supposed to work with templates also.

