Subject: HELP: vi with Pine

From: [email-masked] (PETER JAY SALZMAN)
Date: 10 Jul 1996 19:04:25 GMT

Hi all

I would really like to use vi with Pine instead of Pico.  How can I do
this?

Actually, I would like Pine to use vi as the primary editor, not an
alternate that I can choose once a mail session has begun.  I noticed
there is an "alternate editor" line in .pinerc.  What about for the
primary editor?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.   btw- I looked for the FAQ on
the newsgroup and there doesnt' seem to be one.  Otherwise I would've
tried that first!   :-)

pete

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From: Juha Suhonen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:18:23 +0300 (EET DST)

On 10 Jul 1996, PETER JAY SALZMAN wrote:

> Date: 10 Jul 1996 19:04:25 GMT
> From: PETER JAY SALZMAN <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: HELP: vi with Pine
> 

> I would really like to use vi with Pine instead of Pico.  How can I do

Sure.

Enable both enable-alternate-editor-cmd and
enable-alternate-editor-implicitly in the setup and then set your
alternate editor. :) 

JuhaS

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:06:44 -0400

> I would really like to use vi with Pine instead of Pico.  How can I do

    No problem.

> there is an "alternate editor" line in .pinerc.  What about for the

    From the Main Menu, go into Setup and Config.  (By the way, I am
assuming that your Pine is at least at version 3.91 and is not
PC-Pine.) Scroll down a ways and check
"enable-alternate-editor-implicitly." Then scroll down almost to the
bottom of the configuration options and in the "editor" field fill in
the full path to vi (/usr/ucb/vi or whatever it is on your machine). 
That's all there is to it.  Then, whenever you start to compose an
actual message body or initiate a reply, you will get vi instead of
the Pine composer (Pico).

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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