Subject: Editor=emacs

From: [email-masked] (Steve-"Ill build your dreams with these 2 hands")
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 14:28:40 -0400

Hi,
	In the .pinerc file, there is an opportunity for one to
change the default internal editor for pine. I am running 3.89 on
Ultrix 4.4. I want to change this editor to emacs. I did
editor=<pathname/emacs> obviously replacing the pathname with what
it should be. I don't get emacs. I still get pico. Any ideas? TIA
Muchly.

Steve

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From: [email-masked] (Liam Crilly)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 11:43:52 GMT

Steve-"Ill build your dreams with these 2 hands wrote:
»Hi,
»	In the .pinerc file, there is an opportunity for one to
»change the default internal editor for pine.

There is no such opportunity.  This is taken from the default 
.pinerc file:

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# editor specifies the program invoked by ^_ in the Composer.
# This is normally an alternative to Pine's internal composer (Pico)
editor=
-----

I think that explains it nicely.

	Liam.

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From: Dave King <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 15:23:13 GMT

Pine's default editor
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Although Pine3.89 cannot invoke the alternate editor automatically,
Pine3.90 has an "enable-alternate-editor-implicitly" feature. If this
feature, and the "editor" variable are both set, Pine will automatically
activate the specified editor when the cursor is moved from the header of
the message being composed into the message text. 
 
For replies, the alternate editor will be activated immediately.

So, if you would like to use a _default_ editor other than Pico, hang on
for Pine3.90 ... you won't be disappointed.

Dave
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