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  • How to uses the Control-R subcommand when I export?

    From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to Jean-Pierre Coulon on Tue Sep 1 22:22:50 2020
    On Tue, 1 Sep 2020, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:

    When I read a mail and type E to export Alpine does not react to
    Control-R. Of course providing a file name an Return works fine.

    The Help text says:

    If you are SAVING a text part (text/plain, text/html, etc.) you can use
    the Control-R subcommand to toggle if saving will be done in binary
    mode [...]

    What is the right way to toggle between modes when I export?

    I guess the key observation here is the difference between EXPORTING and SAVING. What you are after is not the EXPORT command, but the SAVE
    command. If you press "V" to view the list of attachments, then pressing
    "S" (to save) will show the ^R command that you are looking for.

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  • From Jean-Pierre Coulon@21:1/5 to Eduardo Chappa on Wed Sep 2 15:38:55 2020
    On Tue, 1 Sep 2020, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

    I guess the key observation here is the difference between EXPORTING and SAVING. What you are after is not the EXPORT command, but the SAVE command. If you press "V" to view the list of attachments, then pressing "S" (to save) will show the ^R command that you are looking for.

    Thanks. Now I see Binary or No-binary in the shortcuts at the bottom of
    Alpine.

    But perhaps the Help that comes along with Export should not mention this ctrl-R option?

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