Re: [Pan-users] alternate editor??

[Loki Harfagr]

Le vendredi 9 mars 2007 18:00, Beartooth a écrit :
> 
> Once the yum repository people at Fedora (or, likely, at livna) started 
> carrying updates to Pan, they've been consistently prompt about putting 
> up versions of each new release; so I've been away from 0.14.xyz for kind 
> of a while now.
> 
> I *think* I remember 0.14 and several before it having a way to set an 
> alternate editor. Didn't they?
> 
> Do the (1.0 - xyz) versions have such a thing? Am I just not finding it?
> 
> Or if not, is there hope that 1.xyz will?
> 
> I've never liked the default editor, if only because the tab key merely 
> gets me lost, instead of letting me indent paragraphs (as, imnsho, every 
> writer worth a keyboard ought to do always).
> 
> Now a couple of savvier friends (Does 'savvy' *have* a comparative form?) 
> are after me to learn a 'real' editor at last -- vi, in their opinion, 
> instead of pico/nano and whatever Pan's default is.

  'gedit' I presume :-)

> One of them suggests  
> phasing it in, starting with apps other than my usual mailer (Pine -- or 
> fight; I hate web mailers, or any GUI mailers). 
> 
> That makes a lot of sense. And I use Pan heavily, but seldom for matters 
> so urgent I can't wait a day or three. So it's the obvious candidate. Can 
> I do it?
> 

  Edit your posting prefs file :
~/.pan2/posting.xml

  And modify (or add) the "active" one, like :
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<posting>

  <editors>
    <editor active="true">elvis</editor>
    <editor>gedit</editor>
    <editor>gvim -f</editor>
    <editor>kwrite</editor>
    <editor>xterm -e vim</editor>
  </editors>
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