Subject: Getting Rid Of PICO???

From: [email-masked] (Pete Holsberg)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 22:09:40 GMT

I would like to use a different editor from PICO while using Pine.
Setting editor= in the pine.conf and/or .pinerc does not do it.

What does?

Thanks.

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 17 Nov 94 03:33:16 GMT

>Thanks.

I want jove, which is set as my $EDITOR, so I have the following lines in
~/.pinerc:

# List of features; see Pine's Setup/options menu for the current set.
# e.g. feature-list= select-without-confirm, signature-at-bottom
# Default condition for all of the features is no-.
feature-list=old-growth,
        signature-at-bottom,
        enable-alternate-editor-implicitly

I then have:

editor=$EDITOR

in the ~/.pinerc, in case I change my mind to use JED or emacs or joe.

Whenever I page down from the headers it autoloads the editor.  NEAT!

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From: Byrg Bonnelycke <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 10:41:53 -0500 (EST)

Hi:
I use PINE 3.91.
To use the UNIX 'vi' editor instead of PINE's default 'pico' editor, 
I
	1) change the editor line in PINE's configuration file to
	   editor     =vi
	   The PINE configuration file is available under PINE's 
	   main menu,
	2) hit the ^_ key (i.e. Control-Underline) which is only
	   available from WITHIN the body of the message.
Hope this helps.
Byrg

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Holsberg)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 02:41:22 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Byrg Bonnelycke <[email-masked]> wrote:
=Hi:
=I use PINE 3.91.
=To use the UNIX 'vi' editor instead of PINE's default 'pico' editor, 
=I
=	1) change the editor line in PINE's configuration file to
=	   editor     =vi
=	   The PINE configuration file is available under PINE's 
=	   main menu,
=	2) hit the ^_ key (i.e. Control-Underline) which is only
=	   available from WITHIN the body of the message.
=
=On Wed, 16 Nov 1994, Pete Holsberg wrote:
=
=> I would like to use a different editor from PICO while using Pine.
=> Setting editor= in the pine.conf and/or .pinerc does not do it.
=> 
=> What does?
=> 
=> Thanks.

Folks,

The word I want to use is REPLACE! As in, you never see pico!! Is pico
source built-in to pine???

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From: Brad <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 17:00:25 +0000

The pico source is not built into pine. It is, would you believe, a
file called pico! :) If you enable-alternate-editor-implicitly, then you
don't ever need to see pico--as soon as you enter the body of the message,
the alternate editor will be envoked.

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 23 Nov 94 03:22:50 GMT

>source built-in to pine???

PICO is built-in for editing headers.  IFF you have the right stuff in your
.pinerc, when you do a 'c' or 'r' AND move down into the message you are
presented with your choice of alt ed.  (I suppose it is alright to like vi,
but it is not very polite to speak of it except in whispers :)  ).

I posted the following on the 17th.  How did you miss it?

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ellis: >Getting Rid Of PICO???  17 Nov 94 03:33

I then have:

editor=$EDITOR

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Holsberg)
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 02:46:07 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
R. Stewart Ellis <[email-masked]> wrote:
=[email-masked] (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=
= >I would like to use a different editor from PICO while using Pine.
= >Setting editor= in the pine.conf and/or .pinerc does not do it.
=
= >What does?
=
= >Thanks.
=
=I want jove, which is set as my $EDITOR, so I have the following lines in
=~/.pinerc:
=
=# List of features; see Pine's Setup/options menu for the current set.
=# e.g. feature-list= select-without-confirm, signature-at-bottom
=# Default condition for all of the features is no-.
=feature-list=old-growth,
=        signature-at-bottom,
=        enable-alternate-editor-implicitly

What is this, COBOL? ;-)

=I then have:
=
=editor=$EDITOR
=
=in the ~/.pinerc, in case I change my mind to use JED or emacs or joe.
=
=Whenever I page down from the headers it autoloads the editor.  NEAT!

What version of pine, Stew? It didn't work in 3.89.

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 26 Nov 94 16:16:59 GMT

>What version of pine, Stew? It didn't work in 3.89.

Now we are getting somewhere!  The single biggest enhancement in 3.9x for me
is the enable-alternate-editor-implicitly command.  In 3.89 you are stuck
with the ^_ or whatever kludge.

If you want to have seamless use of another editor you must upgrade.  You
will also get all the selection features that have been added (plus the
potential confusion concerning news replies).

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Holsberg)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 16:12:53 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Pete Holsberg <[email-masked]> wrote:
=In article <[email-masked]>,
=R. Stewart Ellis <[email-masked]> wrote:
==I then have:
==
==editor=$EDITOR
==
==in the ~/.pinerc, in case I change my mind to use JED or emacs or joe.
==
==Whenever I page down from the headers it autoloads the editor.  NEAT!
=
=What version of pine, Stew? It didn't work in 3.89.

I'll answer my own question -- it works in 3.91! Thanks, guys!