Subject: alternate editor command

From: [email-masked] (Joseph Cain)
Date: 16 Sep 1996 14:24:35 GMT

I put an X in the enable-alternate-editor-cmd using superuser mode and
it appears also when I look on my own account. However, when I compose
a message it always goes to pico. Am I missing some other setting I
need to make to have this function?

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From: [email-masked] (Zachary H Leber)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 01:06:45 GMT

Checking "enable-alternate-editor-cmd" just allows you to use an alternate
editor if you press Ctrl-space.  You need to check
enable-alternate-editor-implicitly for it to always kick in. 

Joseph Cain ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I put an X in the enable-alternate-editor-cmd using superuser mode and
: it appears also when I look on my own account. However, when I compose
: a message it always goes to pico. Am I missing some other setting I
: need to make to have this function?

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph Cain)
Date: 17 Sep 1996 10:56:13 GMT

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph Cain)
Date: 17 Sep 1996 11:02:29 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Joseph Cain) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Zachary H Leber) writes:
>Well, I guess I am dense (no surprise, eh?), but a control-space seems
>to give me the message  "already at end of message" while reading a
>message, and no reponse while composing. If in index or main menu I
>get a menu brought down from Procomm Plus 3.0, which I am using from
>my home Pentium. I have not tried this yet on the office sparc under
>the Solaris x-windows.
>

I have also tried checking both the ..cmd and the ..implicitly and
indeed it kicks into the compose and then drops into emacs (my default
editor). It seems to work the same without the ..cmd checked as
well. Is there something that the added check under
enable-alternate-editor-cmd is supposed to do? It would logically seem
redundant to use both. Invoking emacs takes a little longer but pico
is so similar that it is often hard to switch languages without
stumbling.

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From: [email-masked] (Ramanuj Basu)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 21:38:07 GMT

Yep.  X'ing the setup option "enable-alternate-editor-cmd" only gets you the
*ability* to invoke an editor other than pico using the ^_ command.  If you want
to have the alternate editor be your default editor, you need to also X the
"enable-alternate-editor-implicitly" option found immediately below the first in
the setup screen.

-Ram
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From: Matt Chatterley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 16:25:44 +0000

On 16 Sep 1996, Joseph Cain wrote:

> Date: 16 Sep 1996 14:24:35 GMT
> From: Joseph Cain <[email-masked]>
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: alternate editor command
> 

Did you actually specify and alternate editor?

Regards,

	-Matt Chatterley
http://user.itl.net/~neddy/index.html

	"May you live in.. Interesting Times."

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph Cain)
Date: 17 Sep 1996 22:42:36 GMT

>enable-alternate-editor-implicitly for it to always kick in. 

All seems to be working ok now. Instead of Ctrl-space it seems to like
the Control-shift _ (underline) to invoke the editor. It is neat
in that I find that while using Pico I can copy text from another
window (either xwindow on the Sun or some editor window on a Pentium)
into a message, whereas this is not possible using emacs. I can then
use emacs, which I am more familiar with, to do the actual editing.

I tried but did not like using the implicitly option for this reason.

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph Cain)
Date: 17 Sep 1996 22:43:13 GMT

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From: [email-masked] (Dick Hogeweg)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 96 06:45:36 GMT

>> need to make to have this function?

If you don't want to use the Pico editor anymore you'll have to enable the
option "enable-alternate-editor-implicitly"!-)

Kind regards,

Dick Hogeweg

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