Subject: alternate-editor

From: [email-masked] (Kathrin Heyer)
Date: 10 Mar 1995 18:34:41 +0100

Hallo,

I'm a newbie in pine and I've a problem with the editor.
I will utilize the alternate-editor option. How can I do this ?

in hp-ux:

- setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi
- in pine-setup-menue        set enable-alternate-editor-cmd
			     set enable-alternate-editor-implicitly
			     editor = /usr/local/bin/pico

What is false ??? The change in pine from pico to alternate editor vi
isn't o.K. (Unknown Command: ^_)

Thank you and sorry for my bad english

Kathrin

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From: David Dumaresq <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 10:32:04 -0800 (PST)

> 			     editor = /usr/local/bin/pico
In the Setup, Config menu page down to editor and select C (change)
change editor to 

   	/usr/bin/vi

It looks like you have actually told pine to use pico (the default editor)
rather than vi. It also looks like you have told pine to use vi as your
default editor (enable-alternate-editor-implicitly). This means that
whenever to compose or reply to a message vi will be used rather than pico.

If you want to activate it depending on the situation, de-select
enable-alternate-editor-implicitly. Then when you are composing/replying 
you can type ^_ (this is Ctrl+Shift+Minus).

Hope this helps,
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