Re: GLUG: Emacs and pine

[John Carter <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Wayne Pascoe wrote:

> I'm moving to emacs slowly. Found some nice features to it. Just one
> question ( for now :-) ) When using vim as my external editor, it
> opens in the same window as pine. When I use emacs, it opens a new
> window. While this doesn't seem a big deal, it's a pain having to
> shift focus to a new window whenever you want to compose an e-mail.

Braun's "no window" option will work fine, but there is also the
"sideways" option of using emacs-client (Read the info pages on it) and
using whatever your current emacs edit session is as the pine editor.

After getting fed up with pine's habit of firing up an emacs _everytime_
you accidently down arrowed or cr'ed into the edit region because you
forgot to shift focus I have set emacs as my "alternate editor" on pine so
pine only invokes it if I say ctrl-shift-_ in the pico editor.

John Carter

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