Subject: pico "mail" mode.

From: Adam Sulmicki <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:53:52 -0400

Hello
	I wanted to use pico with an other mailer (MH) in this case
	I just use it as any other editor. However, the thing I was 
	wondering about is that if I use pico from pine it has 
	ability to automatically format quoted email. That is
	if I have an email quoted with ">" at beginning of each
	line and then press ctrl-j to justify it, it does
	automagically takes care of the ">" chars.

	How do I enable this feature when MH is calling pico? 
	the only remotely likey option seems be "-t" but it 
	does not quote seems to work.

	Ideas?

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:46:38 -0500 (CDT)

>From: Adam Sulmicki <[email-masked]>
>Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:53:52 -0400

>I wanted to use pico with an other mailer (MH) in this case I just use it as
>any other editor. However, the thing I was wondering about is that if I use
>pico from pine it has ability to automatically format quoted email. . . .

>How do I enable this feature when MH is calling pico?

The feature is unique to the pine composer. You'll notice that it isn't
available when resuming editing on a postponed message.

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From: Raja BrewHaHa <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:35:38 -0600 (MDT)

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> >How do I enable this feature [quote formatting] when MH is calling pico?
> 

I hav access to two news-readers on this system. The threaded one's called
tin. It uses pico, so I have the same question. Is there a switch on pico
to enable ^J?

I also use pico with Lynx. When using pico with tin or Lynx, and after
hitting ^R, using [tab] to complete filenames isn't available either.
Is there a switch on pico to enable filename completion?

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From: Adam Sulmicki <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 02:50:01 -0400

"Adam H. Kerman" writes:
->>From: Adam Sulmicki <[email-masked]>
->>Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:53:52 -0400
->
->>I wanted to use pico with an other mailer (MH) in this case I just use it as
->>any other editor. However, the thing I was wondering about is that if I use
->>pico from pine it has ability to automatically format quoted email. . . .
->
->>How do I enable this feature when MH is calling pico?
->
->The feature is unique to the pine composer. You'll notice that it isn't
->available when resuming editing on a postponed message.

Would make sense, since I did looked into pico source and did not see
anything like this, then again I did not look too carefully.

This brings question what other Mail-aware editors are out there [1]

-Adam
[1] Emacs does not count since it is too slow to start each time
I want to send an email. It would be ok if it could run in
daemon mode in background and starting an extra emacs would 
just load an extra front-end only. Unfortunatelly it is not
what emacs-client does.

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:07:39 +0200

> This brings question what other Mail-aware editors are out there [1]

Loads of them. At the moment, I`m using vim. It can handle almost anything,
except of course (in its default settings) your reply string. Change it.

> [1] Emacs does not count since it is too slow to start each time I want to
> send an email. It would be ok if it could run in daemon mode in background
> and starting an extra emacs would just load an extra front-end only.
> Unfortunatelly it is not what emacs-client does.

It is. You must be doing something wrong. However, if you`re using Emacs
anyway, you might as well use its built-in Mail-/Newsreader Gnus.

Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
Control Risks Germany Ltd.
<http://www.crg.com/>

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:23:16 -0500 (CDT)

Please don't send me duplicates of your replies to the list.

>From: Raja BrewHaHa <[email-masked]>
>Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:35:38 -0600 (MDT)

>tin. It uses pico, so I have the same question. Is there a switch on pico

To fix the quoting in followups? No.

>Is there a switch on pico to enable filename completion?

No.