From: Anton Altaparmakov Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:12:37 GMT Subject: Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > > What I find amusing is that it was a patch rejection mail from you > > *years* back (circa 2000 iirc), telling me my pine corrupted whitespace, > > that made me switch MUA ;-) > > > > All these years later, and it's still buggered ? > > Actually, it seems better. It seems to be buggered by default, but it used > to be that you had to actually recompile pine to make it behave. Now you > can just disable "strip-whitespace-before-send" and _enable_ > "quell-flowed-text" and those together seem to do the trick. No extra > patches or recompiles necessary. Indeed. I use those two options like that, too. (-: > So there's progress. > > Of course, pico is still pico. Which I find a bit sad: my editor of choise > is still an improved version of uemacs, and pico actually comes from the > same uemacs history, but has different key-bindings for just enough keys > to be slightly confusing. > > Still, that shared history means that I find pico a lot more to my taste > than just about any other emailer editor out there. It may have a few > differences, but it has more things in common.. Why don't you enable "enable-alternate-editor-implicitly" and set editor = "your-editor-of-choice" in the pine config? It is integrated in a quite seamless way. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/