Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 19051
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2000/8/20-22 [Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:19051 Activity:high
4/141   How do I make "vi" my default editor in PINE?  I inserted it into my
        .pinerc file under "editor=vi" but that doesn't work.  It adds the
        command ctlr+_" to the bottom of the menu in pine but that command
        doesn't work.
        \_ Make sure you enable this option in setup
           [X]  enable-alternate-editor-cmd
        \_ Or better yet,
           [X]  enable-alternate-editor-implicitly
        \_ Ctrl-_ should work.. you might have a terminal program that doesn't
           support it correct.  If you're using vi as your editor, btw, you'll
           lost most of the benefits of pine (i.e. having an integrated
           editor).  You should probably switch to something better, like
           mutt (much faster, more powerful, yadda yadda).  --dbushong
           \_ or (n)mh ----ranga
           \_ Ack , but you are stuck with pico then which absolutely blows
              goats. I find vi unacceptable to mail editing either. vim seems
              ok if you add shortcuts for spell checking and use
              ":set nocompatible" and ":set backspace=2" options.
              \_ the prime benefit to pine's built in editor seems to be
                 that if your connection is reset in the middle of writing
                 an email (common as my company gets inet through pbi BLAH)
                 there is a possibility of recovery.  i've switched to
                 mutt/vim and this is the only thing that i miss.  any
                 suggestions on how i can replicate the recovery
                 behavior?
                 \_ screen!
                 \_ correctly configured vim leaves behind a swap file,
                    from which you can later recover using vim -r.
              \_ I find standard vi (nvi) to be just fine.  It can do autowrap,
                 if you want spell checking, you hit 'i' in mutt (for ispell),
                 and I've never had a problem with backspace...  --dbushong
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