Quoting Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, ktb wrote: > > > You might want to try mutt. I like it a lot better. It > > took some configuring but it isn't as clunky as pine. > > I have recently been trying mutt and, quite honestly, I have find mutt a > lot clunkier than Pine. > > One example: when you call up Pine for the first time in any home > directory, Pine creates a default .pinerc and it is extremely easy to > customize Pine from the Pine master menu. > > In contrast, with mutt, no .muttrc is created automatically on first use > and evidently there exists no easy to use configuration program (at least I > have been unable to find one) as there is in Pine.
These are the sorts of issues that concern "beginners" who can be helped by having a good /etc/Muttrc file. Power users aren't really concerned. As my institutional copy of mutt resides in my own disk space (they don't support it), I would be disappointed at being quota'd for all that redundant help. > It took me an hour of > wading through documentation to figure out how to just get my 'From:' > header to display my e-mail address. Apparently, I must do the same for > each item of customization I want in mutt. > > Another example: control and navigation keys are clearly displayed at the > bottom of each Pine screen. For the equivalent functionality in mutt, I > must press '?' and wade through a gadzillion keys displayed over multiple > screens. There's a set of key bindings in the deb for people used to pine. Again, for the power user, there's no desire for real estate to be wasted on stuff like that. > I would gladly convert to mutt from Pine just to get a more pure open > source license. But, in my opinion, the clunkiness of mutt makes such a > conversion quite formidable when I must still read my e-mail each day. There are very few different commands you actually need just to read day-to-day emails, and the keystrokes needed can be (and are by default?) displayed in one line. > So I am very surprised to hear you say that you think Pine is clunkier than > mutt. I would welcome learning in what ways. Configurability, customisability, whatever, of keystrokes and status information for each type of screen, navigation, colours, headers, editor, etc. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
