[Alpine-info] Insert pound sign

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:


:) Ah.  I misunderstood the context.  Yes, works fine here under Alpico 

:) (Alpine's internal mail editor -- I normally enable implicit external 

:) editing under Vim).  Tested under urxvt, uxterm, w/ and w/o GNU screen 

:) in-between.

:) 

:) I thought you were suggesting a more general mechanism.


Whenever you see a prompt in alpine asking you for input (such as the one 
for the "G"oto command), you can press ESC ESC 163 to input the pound 
sign. It might not make sense to input a pound sign in that particular 
case, but it is possible (a better example is the "search" command in 
pico, but since you do not use it, it may not be relevant to know that for 
you).

By the way, one of things that I appreciated about the change in name was 
that Pico retained its name. Only Pine changed its name. Not trying to be 
picky, but...

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/