[GRLUG] Email clients and console

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Topher wrote:

>> I'm writing this using 'alpine' under Debian. It's running under the same 
>> screen session as my IRC client. we'll see how this works out.
>> 
>> Only thing I've noticed so far is that the command bar at the bottom of the 
>> message editing window makes me think I'm in Nano, so I'm tempted to hit ^O 
>> to save and send the message. That doesn't quite work, as ^O is tied to 
>> 'Postpone', which I'll guess is something akin to 'save as draft'.
>> 
>> Here are the instructions I used to set this up:
>> 
>> https://lusule.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/how-to-7/
>> 
>> ( And, yup, I hit ^O to save. -.- )
>
> I've been a Pine/Alpine user since about 1995.  Nano came from Pico, which 
> was made by UWash specifically to be the editor for Pine.
>
> It's possible to switch to vim for the editor if you wish, but after 15 years 
> it would be hard for me to remember.  :)

I think I'll have to; it's not easy to delete whole lines when 'dd' isn't 
handy. :)

>
> I've had issues running Alpine under Screen.  It chewed up some characters I 
> think.  It's been a long time.

screen can do that sometimes, sometimes it's a bug in ncurses, and 
sometimes it's a bug in one's terminal configuration. I fix these things 
as I notice them and can track them down.


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