nano and pine

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Janina,

You have been missing a real treat. However, I think you have
been using mutt lately, right? I have not made the switch yet,
and nano makes pine a lot more enjoyable than the native pine
composer, especially with that "-t" option that turned up the
other day. And it uses function keys for shortcuts to replace the
ctrl key combinations. For instance F1=help, F2=exit, F3=update,
F4=justify, F5=include, F6=search, etcetera etcetera etcetera.

This is from the pico man page:

Description
       Pico is a simple, display-oriented text  editor  based  on
       the  Pine message system composer.  As with Pine, commands
       are displayed at the bottom of the  screen,  and  context-
       sensitive  help is provided. <smip>
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Sounds like two different editors in this blurb.

Chuck






On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Charles:
>
> You're right, and I'm wrong--mostly.
>
> I was indeed not using nano. Seems the "alternate-editor implicitly" must be checked in order for the editor value to be honored. And, that does mean no
> arrowing up to the header. Groan.
>
> However, according to Pine help, pico and the pine composer are, supposedly, one and the same. Here's what they say:
>
> "Editor specifies the program invoked by ^_ in the Composer. This is normally an alternative to Pine's internal composer (Pico). You could use this
> setting to specify an alternate editor to use occasionally or if you have a favorite editor and want to use it all the time (see the
> "enable-alternate-editor-implicitly" setting)."
>
> Sheesh. Egg on my face twice in one week.
>
>
> --
>
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
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>
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>
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