On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:43:04PM -0500, Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is different. I think I like it because I am a vi junkie and I hate
> some of the single key responses in the mutt pager (like skipping to the
> next email when I just wanted to move down one line.) It is disorienting
> to switch from vi to the mutt pager all the time and back. I've also got fmt and par
> going to reformat messy emails quickly.
Note that if your issue with the mutt pager is its keybindings, they are
thoroughly configurable. You might consider using the mutt pager with
keybindings that make you happy, and a macro that pipes problematic
messages through fmt and par and into vi or less.
But again, if it makes you happier to use vi, don't let me get in your
way. :-) There's a reason that mutt has a $pager variable.
-Daniel
> I guess I will try it and see if it makes things more pleasant.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Joel
>
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:10:04PM -0500, Daniel Eisenbud wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:46:41PM -0500, Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is is possible
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > and advantageous
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > to use vi as an external pager?
> >
> > Hope this helps. :-) To be a little bit more specific, you lose all of
> > the mutt highlighting, quote-hiding, pager_index_lines, as well as the
> > ability to do things from the pager with a single keystroke. In return
> > for this, you don't get any real advantage that I can think of. On the
> > other hand, if it would make you happy, go for it.
> >
> > -Daniel
> >
> > --
> > Daniel E. Eisenbud
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > "We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of
> > undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed
> > hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms."
> > --Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"
--
Daniel E. Eisenbud
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of
undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed
hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms."
--Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"
