nano and pine

[Janina Sajka]

Charles, I don't quite follow. I have no problem arrowing up into the 
header while in the nano composer. I'm also able to do that from pico. 
And, pico has a Ctrl-o postpone command, I believe.


On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> I believe that the built-in "pine composer" is actually not pico
> at all. It is truly built-in and tightly integrated, so that you
> can cursor up into the header area from the message body, and
> ctrl-x is all you need to do to send the file. You can also do
> ctrl-o to postpone the composition while in the message body, and
> you cannot do any of those things in pico. Pico is an editor
> patterned after the pine composer, and that is very different
> from saying that pine uses pico by default. It does not! So in
> fact if you specified pico as your pine editor, you would get
> behavior very like nano. You could not cursor up from the message
> body into the header area, you could not postpone the message
> while in the message body, and you would have to explicitly exit
> pico with ctrl-x and then separately send the message with
> another ctrl-x.
> 
> So what you now have with nano is as good as it gets! <smile>
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Dan Murphy wrote:
> 
> > Hi Chuck and Janina.  Here's how I have it configured.
> > I have the alternate editor implicitly option enabled.  I have nano
> > chosen as the editor of choice with the "-t" along with other things
> > specified on the command line, and now it seems to be doing what I was
> > hoping for.
> > thanks again, Chuck.
> > it seems you can not totally replace the default editor in pine but must
> > use one of the alternate editor options in order for pine to bring up
> > your chosen editor.
> >
> >
> > Dan Murphy
> > mailto:mweeby at earthlink.net
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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