"Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Neil W Rickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Sorry for this off topic question, but I thought this would be a good
> > > place to get some collective wisdom. The organization I work in is
> > > basically a vi, berkely mail group of people whom our system
> > > administrator would like to convert to (n)mh users. The issue is to
> > > provide them with a text-based/curses interface that can be used over a
> > > dial-up/telnet window. (Since the large majority are vi, an emacs based
> > > solution is not a viable answer.) I've tried mutt, but the issue there
> > > is that it rewrites all the messages when you change to another folder
> > > (at least as far as I can tell).
> > >
> > > Are there any other text-based/curses readers that handle mh style mail
> > > folders that anyone can suggest.
> >
> > I am having trouble understanding the question.
> >
> > I read your mail with the 'show' command, which is part of 'nmh'. I
> > have defined my 'showproc' to be 'less', since I prefer that to the
> > default. I am using the 'repl' command to reply. It invokes the
> > 'vi' editor.
> >
> > Yes, I sometimes use 'exmh' for an X-windows interface. But plain
> > nmh would seem to already provide what you want.
>
> I think when he said "text-based/curses interface" he meant a nice little
> menued system, rather than plain nmh's (or even msh's) "know the name of the
> command you want and type it" interface.
>
> Perhaps you could hardwire Emacs for those users to use one of the
> vi-compatibility modes...
>
> MH used to have a program called vmh that sounds like it did what you want,
> but it hasn't been maintained in nmh (the code is there but isn't compiled).
Another alternative might be plum, a perl frontend to [n]mh written by
Tom Christiansen. Personally, I don't like it, but opinions may
vary. Get it on CPAN.
- Ruud de Rooij.
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