Re: tlug: Pine Japanese patch?

[Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com>]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 01:12:54AM +0900, Jonathan Q wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Shimpei Yamashita wrote:
> 
> > stopped working on it. It even has a pine emulation mode, although I
> > don't know how good it is.
> 
> Really?!  I haven't stumbled across that yet.  I've been using mutt at
> work for quite a while now, and I agree - it's the answer to his
> problem.  It's Japanese support is much better than Pine's.  But, I've
> always thought that while mutt was clearly superior to Pine, Pine has it
> beat in one area: the UI itself is (IMO, of course) a lot better than
> mutt's.  I've always thought that if it could be grafted on - perhaps
> calling the product putt :-)  - it would be great.
> 
> So, what's the incantation to make mutt emulate Pine?
> 

There's a Pine.rc in the mutt source distribution that you can plug
into your .muttrc. Sane distributions should have put a copy in
/usr/doc/mutt-*/ . 

Actually, you may be a bit disappointed by it, since it's rather more
simplistic than I've been led to believe. (I've never been a pine user
and I've never been particularly enamored of its interface, so I've
never been tempted to read the damned thing before.) It emulates
the important key-bindings, plus some of pine's default behavior
WRT mail folder locations, postponed messages, sent mail logs, etc.,
but not the k00l curses-based mail folder selection mechanism or the
extensive (for a Unix text-mode mailer) help system that makes pine
so attractive to some. To my relief, it also seems to forgo remapping
all the control keys to anything but the Unix conventional behavior,
so maybe it is somewhat useful after all.

You're welcome to cobble one up in slang or something, of course. :-)

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