On Thursday, 21 October 1999 at 03:22, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> 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.
What less would need, aside from color support, is all the keybindinds.
I have no idea how to get less to reply to mail when you press 'r'...
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