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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Berkeley mail?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.012958.21199@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <#5@byu.edu> <17ghshINNbcq@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:29:58 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <17ghshINNbcq@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk writes:
- >Sean Eckton (ecktons@sirius.byu.edu) wrote:
- >: > Well, the mail program in mailpak is sort of BSDish. But
- >: > why use mail when you can use ELM?
- >
- >I've just compiled the elm mailer under linux 0.97 and it is really nice!
-
- I can't say I've used 'elm' on Linux, but I have peeked at it on the
- local nix box, and it looked okay for a mailer ith a curses interface,
- but I vastly prefer 'mush'. Elm was just a bit *too* friendly for my
- tastes.
-
- >: Actually, a better mail system (I think) is PINE. Take a look at it. You
- >: might find that it is MUCH better than anything else. If I remember right,
- >: elm uses vi to do its mail editing. Pine has a completely different editor
- >
- >wrong: elm looks for the EDITOR variable in your environment and you
- >can set it to your favourite editor (I use ue). If you don't setenv
- >EDITOR elm will default to a compiled in default (/usr/ucb/vi unless
- >you edit the header file).
-
- Also, Pico (the Pine mail editor) is based heavily on MicroEMACS.
-
- Most current programs will look for the EDITOR and PAGER environment
- variables. Those that don't (like *both* Ultrix man(1) programs)
- should have their programmers taken out and shot.
-
- Porting Pine to Linux should not be all that difficult, but when I
- looked at porting Pico, it relied on sgtty stuff, as I remember, so
- some messing around with that stuff will probably be required. As
- someone else has said, though, be prepared to download 1.5MB of
- sources.
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
- + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
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