> Hmm. I've never had any problems with it, but YMMV. (Not SMTP, by the > way, but RFC 822.)
yeah you're right. > See, that drives me up the wall. I don't like the fact that it all goes > through another editor (and one so badly written that it needs to insert > a spurious blank line at the end of every message, at that, though > that's a minor point :)), I don't see why I can't just use the one I > like. I want to use my preferred editor for *all* my messages, and I > don't want to have to contort my hands into Alt-_ first in order to do > so. you can just set the flag "alternate editor implicitly" and you don't have to hit alt-_, it will automatically launch the alternate editor. > I used to get terminally confused when using pine+pico for mail and > trn+vim for news. When "ESC {gq}" (or "ESC gqip", more or less > equivalently, to rejustify a paragraph) and things like that have become > automatic reflexes you tend to type rather spurious stuff into pico. > Maybe I wire editor functions into my head more than most people do, > though. well i'm in the same boat only the other way around ... ^D and ^J aren't particularly usefull in vim :) adam.