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Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Sat Feb 2 09:41:46 EST 2002


Chris:

Isn't ELM now stagnant? Hasn't the version been the same for years? If my 
info is correct, MUTT is a descendant of ELM.

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Chris Peterson wrote:

> 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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				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)
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