Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02Jan2009 13:35, Kyle Wheeler wrote: | On Friday, January 2 at 02:22 PM, quoth Trey Sizemore: | >> Well, OSX is built on FreeBSD, so it's going to be similar to that. | >> What sort of "tweaking" did you have to do? Certainly paths to | >> external programs are going to be somewhat different

Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-02 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Fri Jan 02, 2009 01:35PM, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Friday, January 2 at 02:22 PM, quoth Trey Sizemore: > >> Well, OSX is built on FreeBSD, so it's going to be similar to that. > >> What sort of "tweaking" did you have to do? Certainly paths to > >> external programs are going to be somewhat d

Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-02 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, January 2 at 02:22 PM, quoth Trey Sizemore: >> Well, OSX is built on FreeBSD, so it's going to be similar to that. >> What sort of "tweaking" did you have to do? Certainly paths to >> external programs are going to be somewhat different,

Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-02 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:41:00 -0800, "John Velman" said: > I'm a long time Linux user (RedHad, Slackware), and last year when the > new > iMac with OSX 10.5 came out, I couldn't resist -- but with a lot of > trepidation. > > My worries were completely unfounded. True, some things work differently

Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-02 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:24:53 -0600, "Kyle Wheeler" said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday, January 2 at 01:08 PM, quoth Trey Sizemore: > > I remember having to do a lot of 'tweaking' a while back when I was > > trying to get things setup on a FreeBSD install, so I

Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-02 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, January 2 at 01:17 PM, quoth Joseph: > I ended up using the iTerm because the screen seems to work better. Ugh, seriously? I tried using iTerm but just found it to be way too slow and finicky. My alternative to Apple's Terminal would

Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-02 Thread John Velman
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:24:53PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: [snip] > > I used to use xterm, but these days I use the default Terminal.app. > But that's a battle in and of itself. (more in a moment) I don't have any trouble with Terminal.app. What am I doing wrong? :-) John Velman >

Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-02 Thread John Velman
I'm a long time Linux user (RedHad, Slackware), and last year when the new iMac with OSX 10.5 came out, I couldn't resist -- but with a lot of trepidation. My worries were completely unfounded. True, some things work differently than what you may be used to. You'll have to find those yourself.

Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-02 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, January 2 at 01:08 PM, quoth Trey Sizemore: > I remember having to do a lot of 'tweaking' a while back when I was > trying to get things setup on a FreeBSD install, so I assumed > (perhaps wrongly) that the situation might be similar with

Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-02 Thread Joseph
On 01/02/09, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:40:15 -0600, "Kyle Wheeler" > snipped... > By chance, are you using the default Mac terminal program, iTerm, or > something else entirely for the terminal? > Having just add a macbook, I find it very interesting getting things to work o

Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-02 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:40:15 -0600, "Kyle Wheeler" said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday, January 2 at 12:13 PM, quoth Trey Sizemore: > > I'm contemplating getting a MacBook Pro laptop. As a long-time Linux > > user, I'm concerned about getting mutt running the

Re: Running mutt on Mac OS X

2009-01-02 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, January 2 at 12:13 PM, quoth Trey Sizemore: > I'm contemplating getting a MacBook Pro laptop. As a long-time Linux > user, I'm concerned about getting mutt running the way that I've got it > setup on my Linux machines. For what it's wor