On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:00:22 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > Once the yum repository people at Fedora (or, likely, at livna) started > carrying updates to Pan, they've been consistently prompt about putting > up versions of each new release; so I've been away from 0.14.xyz for > kind of a while now. > > I *think* I remember 0.14 and several before it having a way to set an > alternate editor. Didn't they? > > Do the (1.0 - xyz) versions have such a thing? Am I just not finding it? > > Or if not, is there hope that 1.xyz will? > > I've never liked the default editor, if only because the tab key merely > gets me lost, instead of letting me indent paragraphs (as, imnsho, every > writer worth a keyboard ought to do always). > > Now a couple of savvier friends (Does 'savvy' *have* a comparative > form?) are after me to learn a 'real' editor at last -- vi, in their > opinion, instead of pico/nano and whatever Pan's default is. One of them > suggests phasing it in, starting with apps other than my usual mailer > (Pine -- or fight; I hate web mailers, or any GUI mailers). > > That makes a lot of sense. And I use Pan heavily, but seldom for matters > so urgent I can't wait a day or three. So it's the obvious candidate. > Can I do it?
If you open a new post (hit 'p') you will find the necessary items in the 'Edit' drop-down menu. It's a bit hard to find. The default choices I have includes 'vim' which is 'vi-improved'. There seem to be many incarnations of vi available, some much more elaborate than others. Any editor with vi in its name will probably be a clone of vi, e.g. elvis and many others. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
