nano and pine

[Janina Sajka]

Well, I've been using mutt on weekends! <grin>

See next message about why. 

Meanwhile, function keys wouldn't be the attraction for me, because I know most of the control codes cold. I think I had this wired up once and gave it
up because of just the issues we've discussed--then forgot all about it, really forgot.

The -t may help big time, though. 

The real attraction for me is better cursoring support. Of course, cursor tracking plus movement by word would be a major enhancement. 

I guess that's a reason to go emacs or vim! <big grin>


On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> 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>
> ----------
> 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.
> >
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org