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pico/columns
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sun, 4 Oct 1998 00:33:25 GMT
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cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley) writes:
> Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
> > You mean the thing where it won't let you post anything more than 80 columns
> > wide? Honestly, I don't know how to fix that. I figure I really shouldn't
> > post anything wider than that anyway.
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> Well, no, I *want* to be limited. I just need to figure out a way to
> make pico automatically wrap at about 72 columns. Need to find the right
> FM so I can R it. [...]
I don't know if this helps much, but I had to figure that out once for pico
inside of pine, and there it's called:
composer-wrap-column
so you'd might try setting that to 72 somewhere (dunno where).
> Hrmmm. I'll take a look at it. I don't know why people knock pico. All
> I need to do is type, not word-process, after all. I guess I got used to
> the interface using pine and have stuck with it.
I like pico for quick text edits and use it almost exclusively for email...
I've become as fluent in pico as in vi...what's scarier is running pico in
one telnet window (inside of pine) and running vi in another window (editing
some come), and flipping between the two and not getting mentally mixed up
about keymappings...I don't know how that works, must be subconscious visual
cues with the stuff at the top & bottom of the display in pico.
One of these years I'll bite the bullet learn emacs I suppose, but I'm not a
big fan of Lisp.
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> I also need to figure out how to make my colors nice in Linux itself since I've
> turned on ANSI color to get the benefit of your (now modified) color settings in
> the .slrnrc file. I love the colors in slrn but now everything in my regular
> window is a horrid light gray or blue instead of my prefered bright yellow on
> black.
>
> You know, what I need is a great big book on Linux, preferrably one that deals
> with whatever might be specific to Redhat 5.1, since that's what I've installed.
> I looked on both www.bookpool.com (great cheap book prices) and amazon.com and
> couldn't really find much of anything. The book people seemed to like most was
> one of the Unleashed books by Sams, but it was published when Redhat 4.2 came
> out.
>
> Then again, for all I know the only real differences between 4.2 and 5.1 are
> fat-32 support - which I don't even need since the machine this is running on is
> all Linux all the time.
>
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| (...) I kept telling myself that too, until I found out that vim can be rebuilt to allow perl as an in-editor scripting language. (or python or tcl...) Hate lisp, love perl. If only buying a house would be this easy. Cheers, - Sproat (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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