Pablo -- ...and then Pablo Hoertner said... % % hi@all! Hi again! % % thank you all for all your help. Sure thing! % just to clarify *smile*: i'm not a "pine-user" - i just know it from my % ssh-connection to university. ;-) *grin* Yeah, that's how they all get started... % % one comfortable thing is the address-book - i found one for mutt on my debian % but i didn't configure anything yet. :-) There are a number of address books for mutt. Some of us here even just use mutt's aliases. % % and i know that i should use procmail - i've got a lot of rules set, but i still Good. % 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? % % OT: % vi(m) was the first real editor i knew - i just removed it last night. :-) What!? You removed it? Oh, my. % it's enough for me trying to "learn" emacs (at least the key-bindings and some % funny things that i can do with it) and using mcedit for little scripts, as i % like it's coloured syntax-highlighting. but there are no dogmas - tell me the % preferences and i will see. 8-) Well, vim can do syntax highlighting and more, too. All flames and dogma (which I love to throw around as much as the next person :-) aside, it's good to know vi because then you *know* that you will be able to edit files on any system[*]. It's standard on every *NIX system there is, even if it's just simple vi and not super vim. The same can't be said about emacs, pico, nano, joe, mcedit, ted, or any number of other editors out there -- even for Linux boxes, which tend to have a lot more of them loaded than a real UNIX such as Solaris. 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). * Yes, you could come across some system where someone specifically removed any vi variants, but that's a religious statement, too. I'm not at this time going to go into the [lack of] wisdom of such a move. % % cheerio, % pablo HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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