prompt for alternate editor

[R. Stewart Ellis]

Ted Stern <st...@amath.washington.edu> writes:

>It seems to me that there used to be a prompt for the alternate editor in
>Pine 3.89, but there isn't now. In other words, when I hit ^_, I used to
>get something like

> Edit using alternate editor: emacs

>with the cursor positioned after the end of the editor name. I really
>liked this, because it allowed me to switch editors depending on various
>conditions. It would also be the easiest way to use ispell.

>But now I just get automatic insertion into the alternate editor. This
>seems to go against the principle of Pine asking you whether you want to
>do something unless you explicitly turn that reminder off.

This is the single greatest feature of 3.91, IMHO. Pico is close enough to
jove and emacs to constantly confuse me, and now I can just use jove. Check
for the setting of the "enable-alternate-editor-implicitly" variable and a
couple of other related ones.

>Am I missing some feature setting somewhere?

> -- Ted
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[Ted Stern]

It seems to me that there used to be a prompt for the alternate editor in
Pine 3.89, but there isn't now. In other words, when I hit ^_, I used to
get something like

Edit using alternate editor: emacs

with the cursor positioned after the end of the editor name. I really
liked this, because it allowed me to switch editors depending on various
conditions. It would also be the easiest way to use ispell.

But now I just get automatic insertion into the alternate editor. This
seems to go against the principle of Pine asking you whether you want to
do something unless you explicitly turn that reminder off.

Am I missing some feature setting somewhere?

[Thomas Ulich]

Ted Stern (st...@amath.washington.edu) wrote:

: It seems to me that there used to be a prompt for the alternate editor in

: Pine 3.89, but there isn't now. In other words, when I hit ^_, I used to
: get something like

: Edit using alternate editor: emacs

: Am I missing some feature setting somewhere?

In (S)etup - (C)onfig you can set the feature

enable-alternate-editor-cmd

If depends on whether you specified the alternate editor in the environment
( $EDITOR ) or in the pine setup, as far as I understand. Move to that feature
and press ? for help...

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[L.G. Ted Stern]

I figured out my problem. I want to have enable-alternate-editor-cmd set, but
I DON'T want to have the editor explicitly defined. That way, when pressing
^_ in Compose, I am prompted for my alternate editor with whatever is in the
EDITOR variable.

In other words, on your [S]etup, [C]onfig page, make sure the options look like

feature-list =
[...]

[X] enable-alternate-editor-cmd
[ ] enable-alternate-editor-implicitly

[...]

editor = <No Value Set>

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[Ted Stern]

It seems to me that there used to be a prompt for the alternate editor in
Pine 3.89, but there isn't now. In other words, when I hit ^_, I used to
get something like

Edit using alternate editor: emacs

with the cursor positioned after the end of the editor name. I really

liked this, because it allowed me to switch editors depending on various
conditions. It would also be the easiest way to use ispell.

But now I just get automatic insertion into the alternate editor. This
seems to go against the principle of Pine asking you whether you want to
do something unless you explicitly turn that reminder off.

Am I missing some feature setting somewhere?

-- Ted