Pine in Hoary

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:52:42PM -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > > > Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > > >> Is Pine available in Hoary and/or Warty?
> > > >
> > > > Isn't mutt a pine clone? If it suits you, it's installed by default.
> > > >
> > > > Danilo
> > > >
> > >
> > > If, like me, your first email was Pine, mutt seems, 'nasty'. There is a DEB
> > > packaged Pine out there, I found one via Google that works on my warty box.
> > >
> > > Yeah, I know Stallman cries every time I use it.
> > 
> > There is a Pine.rc file in the examples directory of mutt.  This gives
> > it pretty close to the same feel as pine itself.
> 
> Does it replace vi with pico/nano?

No, but you can control that.  I copied Pine.rc to ~/.muttrc and added

set editor="nano"  

I originally had jpico (included with joe) but with the current version
ctrl-j not only reformats a paragraph, it sets the block marker (ctrl-^)
at the same time, which I find confusing.

Mutt is extremely configurable.