Am 2004-07-31 02:36:12, schrieb Andre Majorel:
> Thank you for your suggestions.
>
> Of all the suggested editors, only mcedit comes closes to being
> intuitive for a Microsoft user. It has almost all the usual
> bindings. The only deviation I noticed is that pressing [del] with
> some text selected removes the character under the cursor, not the
> selection.
OK, it is <F8> in Midnight Commander
> It doesn't wrap lines by default, but Michelle says it can be set
> so I'll keep looking.
While you are in the Editor: <F9> => Menu "Options => Section "General"
At the right side (bottom) of the Dialogbox you willl find "Word wrap
line lenght"
> A serious issue is that it drops non-ASCII characters. This could
> be fatal. I hope there is a way around this.
???
¤ ¢ äöü ß ÄÖÜ éè áà ôõ Çç ???
???
I have no problems with it...
what charset do you use ?
I use iso-8859-1(5) and on the console:
consolechars --font=lat0-16
Because the originalfont installed with Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
does not support those chars
> Other than that, Mom is happy. She was able to read, send and
> reply without panicking. It'll be interesting to see how she
> reacts when she realises that she can't see images inline as in a
> graphical client. <g>
>
> Thank you all.
Greetings
Michelle
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