[Alpine-info] Fwd: Redefining keystrokes "/|w"

[malte.dik at web.de]

Hi,

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, SA wrote:

> I also meant to ask - is it possible to reverse the direction of a search? I

> often overshoot by one searching forward and want to back up one search.

>

> In vi this is accomplished by "?" (shift "/")





> Since I have vi stuck in my fingers I instinctively type "/" for search,  it

> would be very nice (and get me out of a lot of trouble) if I could get pine to

> accept "/" alongside "w" (or instead of).

>

> Does anyone know how I might manage this?



My experiences (at least with the composer) are, that you have to dig 
sourcecode and change the shortcuts there yourself. Switching from a 
composed shortcut to a single character might entail additional hassle, 
but for changing a Ctrl-XYZ-shortcut to another one it really is as 
straight forward as it sounds:

In Debian you just get the necessary boilerplate packages with

aptitude build-dep alpine

then clone the repository from sourceforge like

git clone 
git://re-alpine.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/re-alpine/re-alpine

edit the shortcuts and ./configure && make.


Kind regards,

Malte