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Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 29, 2005, 22:25 UTC
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> 
> 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.
You think so? I don't find it that way.

With an alternate editor you have to edit the headers separately, and things like postponing a message suddenly turns into a big deal, not just a trivial ^O. In fact, almost everything gets more involved.

And pico _is_ pretty close to uemacs.
		Linus
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