nano and pine

[Watson, Keith]

Hello all,

Had a question concerning nano. I installed mutt over the weekend and chose
nano as the editor. Only problem was that I could not get word wrap to work
under nano, no matter what I did. All my messages came out as one long
string when I sent them. I had to "temporarilily" switch back to pico. Any
suggestions?

Keith Watson
Sypris Electronics
Email:  Keith.Watson at sypris.com <mailto:Keith.Watson at sypris.com> 
Phone: (813) 972-6270
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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Hallenbeck [mailto:hallenbeck at valstar.net]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 4:04 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: nano and pine


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.
>
>
> --
>
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
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>
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>
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