Subject: Annoying ^X usage in pine/pico

From: Richard Pavlicek <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 21:27:51 -0500

Am I the only one that finds this annoying?  In compose mode in
pine, ^X means "send message," yet when using pine's pico editor
alone, ^X means "exit."  On several occasions I have sent an
undesired message when I forgot which commands were in effect.

This strikes me as an oversight, and perhaps in future versions
it can be corrected.  In general I like pine, but the command to
send a message should be unique.

Richard

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 18:16:20 +0000 (GMT)

I think you're confusing Pine with (standalone) Pico.  The "send message" 
command in Pine *is* unique: it's ^X.

As a courtesy Pine's quite handy built-in editor is also made available 
as a separate program: Pico.

Within Pine's built-in composer (Pico in disguise) ^X means "get me out 
of this editor and back to Pine, saving my changes and sending the result".

Within Pico ^X means "get me out of this editor and back to UNIX, saving 
my changes".  Is it _really_ so different? :-)

The fun REALLY starts when you start flipping between, say, GNU Emacs and 
MicroEMACS where ^X^C get you out, but one asks you if you want to KEEP 
the changes you have made, and the other asks you if you want to DISCARD 
them.  Now *that's* fun!

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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