Hi Janina, You have been missing a real treat. However, I think you have been using mutt lately, right? I have not made the switch yet, and nano makes pine a lot more enjoyable than the native pine composer, especially with that "-t" option that turned up the other day. And it uses function keys for shortcuts to replace the ctrl key combinations. For instance F1=help, F2=exit, F3=update, F4=justify, F5=include, F6=search, etcetera etcetera etcetera. This is from the pico man page: Description Pico is a simple, display-oriented text editor based on the Pine message system composer. As with Pine, commands are displayed at the bottom of the screen, and context- sensitive help is provided. <smip> ---------- Sounds like two different editors in this blurb. Chuck On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > Charles: > > You're right, and I'm wrong--mostly. > > I was indeed not using nano. Seems the "alternate-editor implicitly" must be checked in order for the editor value to be honored. And, that does mean no > arrowing up to the header. Groan. > > However, according to Pine help, pico and the pine composer are, supposedly, one and the same. Here's what they say: > > "Editor specifies the program invoked by ^_ in the Composer. This is normally an alternative to Pine's internal composer (Pico). You could use this > setting to specify an alternate editor to use occasionally or if you have a favorite editor and want to use it all the time (see the > "enable-alternate-editor-implicitly" setting)." > > Sheesh. Egg on my face twice in one week. > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Crescent (38% of Full)