Subject: Re: Pico configuration question..

From: Tom <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 15:07:28 -0700

On Fri, 5 May 1995, J. Kelly Cunningham wrote:
> |
> |   Can Pico be set up up so that when you save a file by typing
> | ctrl-O, it won't ask for the name of the file to save to, but 
> | automatically save to whatever the name is of the file thats open?
> | 			      [email-masked]
> | 
> | 
> 
> - From the man page:
> 
> 
>      -t   Enable "tool" mode.  Intended for when pico is used as
>           the editor within other tools (e.g., Elm, Pnews).  Pico
>           will not prompt for save on exit, and will not rename
>           the buffer during the "Write Out" command.
> 

This won't work using Pico as a stand-alone editor though; like the
man page says, the -t switch works from within another program.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 15:44:21 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 5 May 1995, Tom wrote:

> Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 15:07:28 -0700
> From: Tom <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: Pico configuration question..
>
>

Huh?  It doesn't make any difference if Pico is called from tin or from
the shell (which does happen to be "another program ;)

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