Fairlight [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 01:20:33AM -0400, Tim Pierce thus spoke:
> > On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 12:59:00AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 12:05:51AM +0000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> > > > So why mutt implements a pop3 protocol? Why do we need this when we have
> > > > fetchmail?
> > >
> > > ...and why have a pager while we have more and less.
> >
> > Heck, at this rate, why should mutt implement mail when we have /usr/bin/mail?
>
> Anyway, that's getting to be a bit extreme...questioning the pager. The
> pager is implimented so that it can do some nice things like colouring,
> etc. It's an enhancement specifically meant to deal with email reading.
> I guess the fine line deals with whether something needs to deal with a
> protocol or not, and whether said protocol should be in an MUA. Since a
> protocol isn't involved in a pager, it doesn't get to stage 2 of the
> question. At least that's how I see the decision-making process re: mutt.
I'd personally prefer to stick with one pager across all my apps because
then I only have to keep track of one set of keybindings and configuration.
But less doesn't do the stuff I want for mail paging (or I haven't bothered
setting it up) so I still use Mutt's -- I guess that means I wouldn't mind
Mutt's being it's own beast and using it for all paging instead of less.
But my guess is less could do what I want if I bothered to digest the whole
man page.
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