Subject: Re: a different editor than pico?

From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 2 Nov 95 14:11:31 GMT

[email-masked] (lux) writes:

 >Cassady Kent ([email-masked]) wrote:
 >: lux ([email-masked]) wrote:
 >: : How do I arrange to use a different edit inside pine (like emacs)?
 >: : I see references to it being done in the faq I have from months ago,
 >: : but it doesn't mention how you go about doing it.

 >: You have to find the Editor   = <No Value Set> line in the configuration
 >: menu.  From the Main Menu within Pine, type s for setup, c for
 >: configuration, and space down to the last page of the menu and select the 
 >: Editor   = line.

 >Okay, I did this.

 >: When no value is set for the alternate editor, Pine uses Pico.  Use the Add
 >: Value command to change it to vi or emacs and maybe others for all I know.

 >: At this point, Pine still uses Pico.  You have to find the
 >: enable-alternate-editor- lines on screen two of the configuration menu and
 >: pick one.  Enable-alternate-editor-cmd allows you to run emacs only when
 >: you request it with the 'switch to alternate editor' command ^_.

 >At first I left this unset.

 >: Enable-alternate-editor-implicitly will run emacs automatically whenever
 >: you compose or edit a letter.

 >I set this, but still when I try to compose a letter pico comes up.
 >I also tried this with enable-alternate-editor-cmd set and pico comes up.

 >Did I miss something, or is there a way to use a different editor
 >(implicity and without the C-_ command thing)?

 >there is now a line in my .pinerc file which reads

 >	features-list=enable-alternate-editor-implicitly

 >and another which reads

 >	editor=emacs

 >but pico still gets used. Any ideas?

Did you exit and restart pine?  I have been using pine with jove since 3.91
came out.

 >thanks

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