[Alpine-info] Pico

[malte.dik at web.de]

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Joshua Miller wrote:


> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:36 PM, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:

>       Thank you all for your replies.

>

>       Why use Pico instead of Nano?

>       ...

>

>       as i see it. With nano if you have your browser open and press Meta

>       key with left arrow or right arrow - the browser will close which i

>       discovered by accident as this is a common way of moving a word in

>       almost any graphical editor or word processor. M-? should take you to

>       last line (it does) but the alternative keystroke M-\ opens up the

>       search same with M-/. M-} indent and M-{ unindent - umm no. ^-space

>       and M-space excellent work as intended. Perhaps i'd be more at home

>       ...

> 

> 

> Hope I'm not beating a dead horse, but have you seen this:

> 

>  http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/nanorc.5.html#KEY BINDINGS

> 

> Might cost you a little time to make it do what you want, but it seems completely within the capabilities of nano to do

> your keybindings however you like.


Where would I put

bind ^Space mark main

to be used in the message-composer? It works when I open nano to edit a 
file from the commandline (after I put it into /etc/nanorc), but not 
in alpine itself.


Sincerely,

Malte


PS: I still have to thank those who answered my "How to retype 
password"-question, because both required recompiling and I was a bit 
discouraged. Thank you for the answer non the less.