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- From: ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: List of enhancements
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 05:55:48 -0600
- Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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- On Wed, 30 Dec 92 08:52:28 EST tom@crc.doc.ca (Thomas Erskine) said:
- >In article <9212290918.AA12334@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> you write:
- >>On 28 Dec 1992 17:39:25 GMT bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) said:
- >>>In article <9212280932.AA14332@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
- >>>> [ much deleted]
- >>*INCLUDING* not "running off the end of the file"???
- >Including two or three kinds of "not running off the end".
-
- Would you please expand on those kinds?
-
-
- >>If so, then please tell me where to get a copy; it isn't available
- >>...
- >see the end for archie's answer
-
- Um.. "archie" didn't reply at all"? Kinda empty at the end... :-)
-
-
- >>Of course, using a pager not default with "elm" creates a problem;
- >>one cannot issue "elm"-related commands from within non-default
- >>pagers. So one needs to quit the pager to even issue a "reply"
- >>command... :-(
- >>Same kind of problem when using an other editor than which comes with
- >>"elm". :-(
- >I like pico (the small editor which comes with (but doesn't require) the
- >pine mailer. It can even be made to work on SysV type unixes if you're
- >willing to modify the code a bit.
-
- If "pico" is the editor used by the "pine" demo running on a machine
- in Washington, then I'd like to refer you to a comment I posted to
- the BITnet discussion list CW-EMAIL. My general feeling was quite
- negative. Sorry, but I've been severely spoiled by a most wonderful
- editor which has also been ported to Unix. And I see no sense or
- reason to learn umpteen editors which are minimalistic subsets of
- that one editor, and which all do their thing just differently
- enough to make typoes (USA-politician spelling ;-) ) every 10 to 20
- keystrokes.
- That's why I'm asking for any decent method to be able to issue
- MUA-related commands from WITHIN the editor of ones choice.
- For "elm" (and other Unix MUAs I've come across) it might mean a
- totally different way of viewing how a MUA works. Ie. not to see
- reading/writing an item as a level deeper than the index (which
- makes inter-communication between levels more difficult if not
- impossible in Unix), but all modes at the SAME level.
-
-
- Regards.
- $$/ (F. Scott Ophof <ophof@server.uwindsor.ca>)
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