Quoting Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > These issues concern people who are _not_ beginners. Time is money and > taking a lot of time to configure an application is wasteful, when an equal > result can be achieved in much less time with Pine.
As I said, if you're used to pine, just use the pine bindings, which someone went to the trouble of writing. If you need the exact location, it's /usr/share/doc/examples/Pine.rc . > Some years back, storage cost was an issue. But these days, when you can > buy a 5Gb drive for $130, the expense of storing Pine is only $0.02. > If Pine saved only a single $100 consulting hour in configuration time, the > tradeoff would already be gigantic in Pine's favor. The advantage offered > by mutt's smaller footprint is nill on any platform larger than a PDA or > cellphone. Kindly desist from offering this sort of advice. I am not party to institutional decisions. Oh, and read my signature. > On the contrary, the power user does want these aids. The power user wants > to make efficient use of his time by being able to quickly access help to > execute commands that perhaps he uses only occasionally, like printing an > e-mail or finding a particular e-mail by searching for a keyword, without > having to search through a nearly endless alphabetical list of commands or > waste brain synapses memorizing something he might do only once a week or > less. It sounds as if you haven't noticed that / will search and highlight in the help screen as well as elsewhere. > There is, in fact, an option in Pine to not display these lines of command > prompts. However, in 4-1/2 years of using Pine, I have not yet begun to > find these help prompts obtrusive. Well, that surprises me. > Only in one respect, that I can see based on my brief exposure, is mutt > better -- mutt is a better _threaded_ mail reader. It looks like a lot of > effort has been put into mutt's threading features. People who want a > threaded mail reader may well prefer mutt. Since I want to process my > mail _strictly_ in arrival order, threaded is not a feature I would ever > use. It beats me how you can deal with high volume lists (like this one) without threading. > Pine's help and configuration systems are vastly superior to mutt -- making > Pine much easier to learn and use on a daily basis -- I submit that these > features are highly significant for 'power users' who value their time. Submit to your hearts content. These things are a matter of opinion, religion, whatever... When I post help, I might post opinions with them, particularly when solicited, as here. But I'm not interested in discussing religious issues nor indulging in a flame war. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.