Subject: Well not really pine, just pico

From: Silviu Cojocaru <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:14:28 +0200

Does pico have any way to run a perl script? I would like such
  a feature to help me change formatting, reflowing text when I
  do a lot of deleting/line splitting.

  Any idea if this will be implemented, if answer is negative,
  then any idea of an editor that can invoke scripts ? as I see
  that pine offers support for other editors too.

  Thanks!

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:02:23 -0800 (PST)

*** Silviu Cojocaru ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:)   Does pico have any way to run a perl script? I would like such a
:) feature to help me change formatting, reflowing text when I do a lot of
:) deleting/line splitting.

Have you tried to define the speller command a call to some menu of
filters which you can apply to the message, instead of just the speller?

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From: "Mike A. Harris" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:18:34 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

>Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:02:23 -0800 (PST)
>From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
>To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
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>Subject: Re: Well not really pine, just pico
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Why not just use PINE sendfilters?  I have many filters set up, 
and I can pass an email through any of them for reformatting.

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:20:18 -0800 (PST)

> and I can pass an email through any of them for reformatting.

The original question was about Pico, not Pine, but in case you are
composing e-mail with Pine's internal editor, I suppose one can do that,
the drawback is that if your filter has a bug you may send "corrupted"
messages, and well, e-mail is not the best place to test them (I know it
for experience), so unless you are really sure your filter is correct, you
can try it that way.

On the other hand, you can always apply many filters (at different times)
during composition if you need, if you do it the way I suggested. I don't
need to do that, but I see it more flexible than sending-filters in that
way.

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From: "Mike A. Harris" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:25:32 -0500 (EST)

>The original question was about Pico, not Pine, but in case you are

Ahh, I missed that part..

>for experience), so unless you are really sure your filter is correct, you

Right.  Mail filters should be tested very well before put intop 
use.

>need to do that, but I see it more flexible than sending-filters in that

Yep, I missed the pico part.

TTYL

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From: Silviu Cojocaru <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:25:04 +0200

Friday, November 23, 2001 at 2:23:37 PM ,
Mike A. Harris wrote the following

> and I can pass an email through any of them for reformatting.

Well true, but I would like to first see the result(ie after
reflowing text) and then send, not the Outlook where wrapping
happens after I press send.

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