Berkeley mail?
Tony Travis
: > 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 _was_ using "ream" previously which is good too, but elm 2.3 is the
first version of elm to tempt me away from ream. Ream is by Paul
Dourish and I got it from Edinburgh University in the UK.
: 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).
Tony.
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Jim Winstead Jr.
>Sean Eckton (eck...@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.
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