Subject: prompt for alternate editor

From: Ted Stern <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 15:51:46 -0800 (PST)

It seems to me that there used to be a prompt for the alternate editor in 
Pine 3.89, but there isn't now.  In other words, when I hit ^_, I used to 
get something like

	Edit using alternate editor: emacs

with the cursor positioned after the end of the editor name.  I really 
liked this, because it allowed me to switch editors depending on various 
conditions.  It would also be the easiest way to use ispell.

But now I just get automatic insertion into the alternate editor.  This 
seems to go against the principle of Pine asking you whether you want to 
do something unless you explicitly turn that reminder off.

Am I missing some feature setting somewhere?

	-- Ted
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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 21 Feb 95 02:13:46 GMT

>do something unless you explicitly turn that reminder off.

This is the single greatest feature of 3.91, IMHO.  Pico is close enough to
jove and emacs to constantly confuse me, and now I can just use jove.  Check
for the setting of the "enable-alternate-editor-implicitly" variable and a
couple of other related ones.

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From: [email-masked] (L.G. "Ted" Stern)
Date: 22 Feb 1995 20:10:08 GMT

I figured out my problem.  I want to have enable-alternate-editor-cmd set, but
I DON'T want to have the editor explicitly defined.  That way, when pressing
^_ in Compose, I am prompted for my alternate editor with whatever is in the
EDITOR variable.

In other words, on your [S]etup, [C]onfig page, make sure the options look like

feature-list           =
				[...]

            [X]  enable-alternate-editor-cmd           
            [ ]  enable-alternate-editor-implicitly    

				[...]

editor                 = <No Value Set>

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Ulich)
Date: 21 Feb 1995 22:35:55 GMT

Ted Stern ([email-masked]) wrote:

: It seems to me that there used to be a prompt for the alternate editor in 
: Pine 3.89, but there isn't now.  In other words, when I hit ^_, I used to 
: get something like

: 	Edit using alternate editor: emacs

: Am I missing some feature setting somewhere?

In (S)etup - (C)onfig you can set the feature

	enable-alternate-editor-cmd

If depends on whether you specified the alternate editor in the environment
( $EDITOR ) or in the pine setup, as far as I understand.  Move to that feature
and press ? for help...

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