html mail...

[Shaun Oliver]

um. janina,
I thought pine was the decendant of elm?
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Janina Sajka
wrote:

> 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
> > >
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