Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated

Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-29T22:33:08Z

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > Why don't you enable "enable-alternate-editor-implicitly" and set
> > editor = "your-editor-of-choice" in the pine config? It is integrated in
> > a quite seamless way.
>
> You think so? I don't find it that way.
>
> With an alternate editor you have to edit the headers separately, and
> things like postponing a message suddenly turns into a big deal, not just
> a trivial ^O. In fact, almost everything gets more involved.

Well using vim as alternate editor a postpone turns into a "ZZ" followed
by ^O which I don't think is such a big deal but in general I agree that
it adds hassle. It is a shame that the text based headers do not appear
as part of the message in the editor in particular...

> And pico _is_ pretty close to uemacs.

I wouldn't know about that. Never used uemacs. I am a vim addict myself.
(-;

Best regards,

Anton
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