Mutt or Pine?

Mutt or Pine?

[Bill Gaughan]

Is there really any contest? Let's have a discussion and then let's take a
vote.

You can call lynx from pine when there is a url to be resolved in your
e-mails.

Asking if mutt and pine are equal is sort of like asking if speakup should
replace emacspeak. Any why would you want to use emacs/w3 browser when you
could use lynx or even links. Seriously I have dabbled into all these
products, but, I favor lynx and pine. The url for the "LINKS" web
browser (which shows frames very nicely) is listed below:


http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/



-- 
Bill Gaughan
wgaughan@snet.net

Re: Mutt or Pine?

[Henry Yen]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 03:28:39AM -0500, Bill Gaughan wrote:
> You can call lynx from pine when there is a url to be resolved in your
> e-mails.

you can do this with mutt, too.  control-b invokes a list of URL's in the
message.

-- 
Henry Yen                                       Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer                       Hicksville, New York

Re: Mutt or Pine?

[Buddy Brannan]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:05:45PM -0500, Henry Yen wrote:
> you can do this with mutt, too.  control-b invokes a list of URL's in the
> message.

...Assuming you have urlview installed. It might come with mutt--I
can't remember--but in any case, it's a damned handy little program to
have around! You can even pipe any text through it (say, an article in
your newsreader) and it extracts the URL's from that. It's good
stuff!! And mutt's skip quoted feature's not too bad either.
-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV    | From the pines down to the projects,
Email: davros@ycardz.com | Life pushes up through the cracks.
Phone: (972) 276-6360    | And it's only going forward,
ICQ: 36621210            | And it's never going back.--Small Potatoes

Re: Mutt or Pine?

[Bill Gaughan]

To each his own. That's what makes all this stuff interesting. Pine has no
learning curve and I never use the menus. Just type the letters and go
directly to the place you want to be. For me, command-line stuff is ok,
but, command line options are too much to remember and key-stroke commands
that don't make logical sense are hard to remember too. Why clutter one's
brain with useless info that will change with the next product or version
anyway. I'd rather remember what people say in their e-mails rather than
the command-line options and odd-ball keystrokes I need to decode the
info.


-- 
Bill Gaughan
wgaughan@snet.net

Re: Mutt or Pine?

[Christopher Brannon]

Bill Gaughan <wgaughan@snet.net> writes:
> Is there really any contest? Let's have a discussion and then let's take a
> vote.
> You can call lynx from pine when there is a url to be resolved in your
Actually, MH!  This is IMHO, the king of all mail systems.  I can always do
"cutty pasty" type things to resolve a URL.  I know lots of folks like
their menus, not I.  I go with as few menus as possible.  And the MH system
has none.  Its all shell commands, "scan", "next", "prev", "repl"... you
get the picture.  If you really like keeping your mail organized, as
I do, there's no better way than MH, IMHO.
But it has a bit of a learning curve.  It may not be best for everyone.

Then, too, there's the mail client written by Karl Dahlke, a fellow list
member.  http://www.eklhad.net/linux/app/ The cool thing about this client
is the way it formats quotations.  No need to slog through a hundred
lines of "> bla bla bla", as one does in conventional mail systems.
This is a very nice feature, especially when reading mail from certain
mailing lists.

Anyway, IMHO, YMMV, and all of that good stuff.