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Re: pine compability



On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:58:06AM -0400, David T-G wrote:
[...]
> % did not get mutt to "alert" me for new mail, when mail gots sorted (thus, i 
> % don't use it and haye _to many_ mails in my inbox!) ... :-D
> 
> Heh.  You need to fix that in a hurry! :-)
> 
> So why do you not get alerts?  Are the mails really dropping into the
> mailboxes?  What format (mbox, Maildir, mmdf, mh)?  Local or remotely
> mounted?

Probably the section on "mailboxes" in TFM shall be studied (3.11) :)

[...]
> The one thing I like about emacs is the purported ability to execute
> commands in a buffer window rather than merely reading in the output of
> such; vim will split screens, too, but I don't yet know how to have one
> of those splits start a shell, and it seems that that might be nice.
> Since I use screen quite extensively, though, I never have the problem
> of having to open and place a new window, so it's definitely not worth
> learning emacs just for that ;-)  If vim CAN do this, though, I'd love
> to hear about how (probably off-list to be kind to the rest of us).

Wasn't that you who said that PINE is against UNIX philosophy in trying
to do what other programs can do better? ;-) I definetely prefer to
EXECUTE commands in shell and not is some buffer window :)

--
Andrei