mutt with pine keybindings (was Re: Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare)

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Todd Zullinger wrote:

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> I wrote:
>> Matt,
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>> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>> I've been thinking of switching from pine to mutt for e-mail, but
>>> the mutt keystroke command reference is seven (24-line) screens
>>> long!.
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>> If it helps (and in case you haven't seen this already), there is a
>> Pine.rc in the mutt package that sets up the keybindings in mutt to be
>> similar to those of Pine 3.95.  As I've never used pine more than a
>> few minutes I couldn't tell you how close these are to the pine one's
>> you are used to, but they might make it easier for you to try out
>> mutt.
>>
>> The Pine.rc is installed in /usr/share/doc/mutt-*/Pine.rc.
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> Oh, and perhaps I should have mentioned that the simplest way to use
> them is to add a line like this to ~/.muttrc:
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> source /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.2.1/Pine.rc
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> HTH,

Interesting idea.  I might try that, although it seems like a crutch.  If 
I'm going to change, it seems like I ought to just dive in.

Thanks.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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