Subject: Re: Pico Justification?

From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 22 Feb 1997 20:35:57 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Michael  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>If you are using Pine3.95, go into setup amd towards the bottom there will
>be a line that looks like this...
>
>composer-wrap-column     = 75  (my setting is 75)

As far as can determine, pico does not read the .pinerc when run as a 
standalone program. (At least it didn't complain when I replaced 
.pinerc with garbage.)

In that case you need to do

pico -r75

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:33:59 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Michael  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>Sorry, I was under the impression that the poster was trying to set the
>length when Pico was invoked by Pine.

I don't know what the poster was trying, but in any case there isn't a
uniform pico interface, so if he uses it both ways he needs both methods.

Something for a future release?

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: Michael <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 14:17:11 -0800

Hi Jie,

On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Jie Yuan wrote:

: So, can one specify an environment so that Pico can be launched with a
: right margine of, say, 75 columns, independent of Pine?
: 

Create an ALIAS in your .login...

alias pico 'pico -r75'

...that should do the trick.

L8R,

Michael ([email-masked])

Press CTRL + L-AMIGA + R-AMIGA to continue...

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From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:15:23 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
Michael <[email-masked]> wrote:

> : pico -r75

Well, I was not trying to invoke Pico by Pine.  I was using Pico directly
from command line.  I was trying to figure out whether there was an
environment parameter that affects Pico in the same way as the -r option. 
I am well aware of the configuration options in the .pinerc file for Pico
under Pine.

So, can one specify an environment so that Pico can be launched with a
right margine of, say, 75 columns, independent of Pine?

Thanks for your responses though!

Jie
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