html mail...

[Chris Peterson]

I've never used mutt, but elm is pretty good...

Thanks for the info on cursor tracking.

Chris



----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: html mail...


> Hi, Pete:
>
> Attached herewith is my .pinerc file. You'll find your highlight tracks if
> you use it. Of course you could set cursor tracking yourself and that
> would do it as well, but someone was saying something about sharing. I've
> shared this before, and I'm sure I'll be delighted to share it again. And,
> if and when I get around to writing the filter for the char set warnings,
> I'll certainly include them. And, if someone else figures that out first,
> please share it. Etc.
>
> Now, if Pine was just GPL ... But it's not, so maybe it's time to try
> mutt.
>
>  On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Chris Peterson wrote:
>
> > Well, that shows my ignorance of pine.
> >
> > I haven't used it for several years, but I just tried it out and had no
> > trouble with reading html mail.  I also had no trouble reading it in
elm.
> >
> > So, perhaps the better solution would be to distribute a version of pine
> > with defaults that are screen reader friendly?  Supressing these
warnings
> > would be a start.
> >
> > Another thing I noticed, on the pine I was using, is that the cursor
doesn't
> > track the highlight bar so I can't use the read current line command to
> > figure out what message I'm on in the message index...etc.  It seems to
me
> > that there used to be a way to toggle cursor tracking, but I didn't find
it
> > when I was playing around with pine 4.10 today.
> >
> > This would be a constructive way of trying to avoid these discussions.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:52 PM
> > Subject: Re: html mail...
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Chris Peterson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Perhaps pine could even be modified to allow you to access links
imbeded
> > > > in an html message.  Thats where I find html to be really useful.  I
> > > > like the fact that, in Windows, I can press enter on a url in a
message
> > > > and almost immediately access the page.
> > > This has nothing to do with html, and this feature has been in Pine
for
> > > years now.
> > >
> > > Yes, that's right, all those urls in Pine text messages are
"clickable" as
> > > the mousy crowd calls them.
> > >
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