Thus wrote Renaud Colinet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.07.19 16:30]:
> on Jul 19, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> > Why?
> > Are there actually things where pine is better?
> > Some people seem to like a menu-driven system, I think...
> What's wrong with that? I was a long time Pine user before switching to
> mutt and I must admit that their menus are quite well designed and make
> it easy to use very quickly. You can do whatever you want with a few
> keystrokes. I don't really know what made me change for mutt (well,
> actually it was a little pressure from a mutt-addict friend) because
> pine suited me fine for what I did (of course now I would never consider
> the inverse change). But the thing is that at first I was a but puzzled
> by mutt's keybindings (which of course totally differ from pine's) and
> constantly had to refer to the help before being productive. So a
> menu-driven system is IMHO not necessarily a Bad Thing, so long as it is
> intuitive and you don't have to dive through (n+1) sub-levels to reach
> the desired command.
Sounds just like my reasons for switching to Mutt :)
One thing that helped ease the switch a great deal was the Pine.rc file in
contrib/ in the source distribution, to set up Pine-like key bindings.
Then I just went nuts from there, configuring all kinds of stuff, some of
which I always wished Pine had (such as running a program to generate a
signature, and having colour).
I would never consider a switch back either...
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