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  • vi or vim or vi(m) versus nano editor

    From Nicholas Saunders@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 22 00:29:43 2021
    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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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Nicholas Saunders on Sun Aug 22 12:48:42 2021
    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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  • From Roderick@21:1/5 to Roderick on Sun Aug 22 19:31:50 2021
    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.

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  • From Roderick@21:1/5 to Nicholas Saunders on Sun Aug 22 19:22:35 2021
    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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