A Nano and Pine question

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Thu Apr 4 15:16:47 EST 2002


Dan:

Just make nano your editor of choice instead of setting it up as an 
alternate. I forget what it's called, but there's a place to specify what 
editor pine should use. You can just point to nano, probably 
/usr/bin/nano.
 On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Dan Murphy wrote:

> Hi all.
> I am currently using nano with pine.  I use the alternate editor
> implicitly option in Pine and it brings up Nano when I start a message
> and it's great.
> But when I finish a message and hit ^x to quit out of Nano to go back
> into Pine I have to hit Y to save it and ^x again.  Is there a way in
> Nano to set a flag or something so that Y is the default?  Or should I
> approach this differently, but still be able to use Nano with Pine?
> Any suggestions would be appreciated, because the cursor tracking with
> Nano and speakup is *so* much better than with Pico.
> thanks.
> 
> Dan Murphy
> mailto:mweeby at earthlink.net
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> in fear, but around us in awareness.
>                 -- James Thurber
> 
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