* C Hamel [10-19-04 17:49]:

That is why I use pico. <G> I got really weary of the hand springs required to operate vim.

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C wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Replying Via Mutt' on Tue, Oct 19 at 17:49:

On 14:34 Tue 19 Oct , Danny Sauer wrote:

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C wrote regarding '[SLE] Replying Via Mutt' on Tue, Oct 05 at 16:25:

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I wondering if there is a way to get mutt's editor to auto-scroll all the way down for replies to posts.

You could probably do something like this by setting the pager to some other viewer rather than the internal pager (maybe vim). If you used vim, you could then also probably use vim's "folding" abilities to collapse quoted text down to a line or two. That would effectively get the result you're after. I think. :)

There are disadvantages to setting "pager", though. The biggest of which, IMHO, is that you have to exit the pager each time you quite reading a message. You'd get real good at typing ":q" if you set it to vim...

--Danny

That is why I use pico. <G> I got really weary of the hand springs required to operate vim.

Since I'm generally programming or editing config files when I'm not composing email messages, I spend lots of time in a text editor. I'm precisely the type of person vim's aimed at - someone who edits text almost all the time, and therefore can justify the time invested in remembering a million shortcut keys. It seems complicated, but I can create/edit text faster than anyone here at the office. When you use the same shortcuts daily, they're not hard to remember. It's much like a discovery I made a few years ago. One day I realized that I was typing without looking at the keyboard, totally by accident. It seems that I'd been using a keyboard for so long, that skill that I'd long though I'd never obtain, just showed up. I still half watch the keyboard, as it does improve my accuracy, but it's a good example of familiarity coming from excessive use. Then again, this is why I had to stop using IE for a webmail client. When I'm done typing a message, I always hit "esc" in preparation for ":wq". IE likes to bind a form's reset() method to the esc key, for some evil reason, causing the message to be erased. Why <ctrl>+z doesn't undo the reset, I'll never know. But that's a big reason that I just don't use IE for anything anymore (that programming mentioned earlier is frequently for web apps - so I do need to use some crappy but poplular browsers sometimes, and sometimes it's convenient to look something up in the window that's already open rather than starting firefox, etc). --Danny, who typed a lot but yet said so little :)