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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:32:57 +0100 (BST)
From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

Well using vim as alternate editor a postpone turns into a "ZZ" followed 
by ^O which I don't think is such a big deal but in general I agree that 
it adds hassle.  It is a shame that the text based headers do not appear 
as part of the message in the editor in particular...
 
> And pico _is_ pretty close to uemacs.

I wouldn't know about that.  Never used uemacs.  I am a vim addict myself.  
(-;

Best regards,

	Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
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