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On Wed, 30 Dec 92 08:52:28 EST tom@crc.doc.ca (Thomas Erskine) said:
>In article <9212290918.AA12334@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> you write:
>>On 28 Dec 1992 17:39:25 GMT bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) said:
>>>In article <9212280932.AA14332@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
>>>>  [ much deleted]
>>*INCLUDING* not "running off the end of the file"???
>Including two or three kinds of "not running off the end".

Would you please expand on those kinds?


>>If so, then please tell me where to get a copy; it isn't available
>>...
>see the end for archie's answer

Um..  "archie" didn't reply at all"?  Kinda empty at the end...  :-)


>>Of course, using a pager not default with "elm" creates a problem;
>>one cannot issue "elm"-related commands from within non-default
>>pagers.  So one needs to quit the pager to even issue a "reply"
>>command...  :-(
>>Same kind of problem when using an other editor than which comes with
>>"elm".   :-(
>I like pico (the small editor which comes with (but doesn't require) the
>pine mailer.  It can even be made to work on SysV type unixes if you're
>willing to modify the code a bit.

If "pico" is the editor used by the "pine" demo running on a machine
in Washington, then I'd like to refer you to a comment I posted to
the BITnet discussion list CW-EMAIL.  My general feeling was quite
negative.  Sorry, but I've been severely spoiled by a most wonderful
editor which has also been ported to Unix.  And I see no sense or
reason to learn umpteen editors which are minimalistic subsets of
that one editor, and which all do their thing just differently
enough to make typoes (USA-politician spelling ;-) ) every 10 to 20
keystrokes.
That's why I'm asking for any decent method to be able to issue
MUA-related commands from WITHIN the editor of ones choice.
For "elm" (and other Unix MUAs I've come across) it might mean a
totally different way of viewing how a MUA works.  Ie. not to see
reading/writing an item as a level deeper than the index (which
makes inter-communication between levels more difficult if not
impossible in Unix), but all modes at the SAME level.


Regards.
$$/    (F. Scott Ophof  <ophof@server.uwindsor.ca>)