Subject: default editor

From: Clary Harridge <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 13:07:30 +1000

Can someone please suggest how I can set the default editor to jove?

I have tried combinations of 

# enable-alternate-editor-cmd
enable-alternate-editor-implicitly
editor=/usr/local/bin/jove

in my .pinerc without success.

I can get into jove using ^_ but how do I get it to come up automatically?

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From: "J. Tse" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 01:47:20 GMT

> I can get into jove using ^_ but how do I get it to come up automatically?

  Setting *both* of the above options works for me ...

                                       --- J. Tse

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 11:51:11 -0400

> I can get into jove using ^_ but how do I get it to come up automatically?

    I use an alternate editor (JOE) with Pine 3.94 and have no problems. 
However, I do have enable-alternate-editor-cmd set as well as the other
two.  Based on what I read in the help screens, this should really not
make a difference, but it certainly doesn't seem to hurt.  Also, it is
possible for an installation to set defaults that the user cannot
override.  I don't know that that is your case, but you could look. 
(Without checking, I think the file is named something like
.pine-conf-fixed .)  But it doesn't make much sense for an installation
to allow a user to invoke an alternate editor by command but not by
default.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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