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by: Nicholas Saunders - Sun, 22 Aug 2021 07:29 UTC

When going to view text attachements, I'm getting vi or vim. Which is fine. But how do I specify nano?

(My alpine searches generally give me mostly results about running the alpine linux distro.)

thanks,

Nick

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by: Carlos E.R. - Sun, 22 Aug 2021 10:48 UTC

On 22/08/2021 09.29, Nicholas Saunders wrote:
> When going to view text attachements, I'm getting vi or vim. Which is fine. But how do I specify nano?
>
> (My alpine searches generally give me mostly results about running the alpine linux distro.)

I was trying to find an email with a _text_ attachment vor checking, but
I failed. I /think/ I see those internally, but I have an idea: change
this line in the setup:

Editor = jstar

As you see, I use "jstar" as alternate editor. You may have "vi" there,
just change it to "nano".

--
Cheers, Carlos.

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by: Roderick - Sun, 22 Aug 2021 19:22 UTC

On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, Nicholas Saunders wrote:

> When going to view text attachements, I'm getting vi or vim. Which is fine. But how do I specify nano?

The "~/.mailcap" file specifies with what program attachments are read.

Rod.

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by: Roderick - Sun, 22 Aug 2021 19:31 UTC

On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, Roderick wrote:

>> When going to view text attachements, I'm getting vi or vim. Which is
>> fine. But how do I specify nano?
>
> The "~/.mailcap" file specifies with what program attachments are read.

If you do not have a ~/.mailcap, you can see if you have a /etc/mailcap
or /usr/local/etc/mailcap in the system, copy it as ~/.mailcap and
edit it.

And if you do not have it, install metamail, then you get it sure,
and also a man page for "mailcap".

Rod.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it. -- Arthur Miller

computers / comp.mail.pine / Re: vi or vim or vi(m) versus nano editor

Subject	Author
vi or vim or vi(m) versus nano editor	Nicholas Saunders
Re: vi or vim or vi(m) versus nano editor	Carlos E.R.
Re: vi or vim or vi(m) versus nano editor	Roderick
Re: vi or vim or vi(m) versus nano editor	Roderick