Hi everyone (especially the mutt users),
I'm hoping to move from Pine to mutt, in particular to be able to take
advantage of IMAP-SSL support. I'm hesitant, though, because I really enjoy
Pico's editting capabilities when run from Pine.
In particular I'm talking about its capability to justify reply quotes
depending on the set message width. This allows me, when using Pine, to delete
portions of the original text that I don't need to quote, press Ctrl+J, and get
the quoted text properly justified and the "> " indicators still properly set
in the first columm of every line. I find this to be really cool. I can also
justify my own long paragraphs, which is again really great.
Another capability that I enjoy is the line cut and paste using the Ctrl+K and
Ctrl+U key combinations. This allows me to quickly (line by line instead of
character per character) delete unwanted portions of code, or transfer large
contiguous blocks of code from one part of the text to another. It is for this
cut-and-paste, as a matter of fact, that I use pico even from outside Pine.
When I used mutt awhile back (I wasn't even using Debian at the time) I tried
using Pico as my editor, but found that justification wasn't handled as it was
when called by Pine. In particular the quote indicators "> " were not treated
as special text. Instead they were rearranged as any other letter would. This
wasn't what I wanted at all. It was for this reason that I stuck with Pine.
After all, RedHat came with binaries of Pine. I didn't see why I shouldn't use
it. With Debian, however, we have to download the sources plus diffs that allow
us to create Debian packages. Not too bad, but I still can't do a simple "apt-
get install pine" to update it. And besides, Debian didn't ship it as a package
because of certain licensing issues, and I'd like to put my support behind mutt
that seems to be better in all other aspects but this (the editor).
So at last to my simple questions:
1. I don't think mutt already comes with its own editor (checked the FAQ out).
What editor would be recommended that can HOPEFULLY handle re-formatting of
quoted text like Pico can? I've never used emacs but I've used vim. I'm pretty
confident vim won't do this. What about emacs? And does emacs have mouse xterm
support like mutt does? (So that they both have mouse support).
2. Aside from the alias lists, can mutt get its aliases from somewhere else?
I'm thinking in the line of a PostgreSQL database. This is crazy, I know, but
Horde IMP's alias list is in an SQL database, and I use Horde IMP when I'm out
of the office, so having one alias list would be great. :)
Thanks everyone.
--> Jijo
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